Summator
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 One who summates. uncommon
"He gathered together and conserved all the main motifs of Latin Christianity from Tertullian to Ambrose; he appropriated the heritage of Nicene orthodoxy; he was a Chalcedonian before Chalcedon--and he drew all this into an unsystematic synthesis which is still our best mirror of the heart and mind of the Christian community in the Roman Empire. […] Yet, even in his role as summator of tradition, he was no mere eclectic."
- 2 A logic circuit or other electronic device whose output is the sum of two or more input signals or values.
Example
More examples"He gathered together and conserved all the main motifs of Latin Christianity from Tertullian to Ambrose; he appropriated the heritage of Nicene orthodoxy; he was a Chalcedonian before Chalcedon--and he drew all this into an unsystematic synthesis which is still our best mirror of the heart and mind of the Christian community in the Roman Empire. […] Yet, even in his role as summator of tradition, he was no mere eclectic."
Etymology
From summate + -or.