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Summation

//sʌˈmeɪʃən// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Summarization; summary; summing up. countable, uncountable

    "In a summation of changed times, we have a lost station site in Bournemouth (now occupied by a coach park) as well as its former hotel (still clinging on as apartments)."

  2. 2
    the arithmetic operation of summing; calculating the sum of two or more numbers wordnet
  3. 3
    Summing; summing up; adding (adding up) of a series of items. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    a concluding summary (as in presenting a case before a law court) wordnet
  5. 5
    the final aggregate wordnet
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  1. 6
    (physiology) the process whereby multiple stimuli can produce a response (in a muscle or nerve or other part) that one stimulus alone does not produce wordnet

Etymology

From sum + -ation.

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