Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act or process of adding; addition.
- n. A sum or aggregate.
- n. A concluding part of a speech or argument containing a summary of principal points, especially of a case before a court of law.
- n. Physiology The process by which multiple or repeated stimuli can produce a response in a nerve, muscle, or other part that one stimulus alone cannot produce.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Addition; specifically, the process of finding the sum of a series, or the limit toward which the sum of an infinite series converges; any combination of particular quantities in a total.
Wiktionary
- n. A summarization.
- n. mathematics : An adding up of a series of items.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of summing, or forming a sum, or total amount; also, an aggregate.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the arithmetic operation of summing; calculating the sum of two or more numbers
- n. a concluding summary (as in presenting a case before a law court)
- n. (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
- n. the final aggregate
Etymologies
- New Latin summātiō, summātiōn-, from Late Latin summātus, past participle of summāre, to sum up, from Latin summa, sum; see sum1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Obama, in summation, is acting just like the abject puppet of the Wall Street derivatives merchants and warmongers which we have argued him to be.”
“The station reports the letter includes what it calls a summation, with Voong saying he cannot -- and I'm quoting now -- "accept my poor life and that at least two people with me go to return to the dust of the earth.”
“So, in summation; CROM! is alive and well and I'm inviting YOU to help keep it that way!”
“David's summation is simple: "In the very decade when it's clear that new antibiotics must be developed the industry has stopped developing them.”
“So ya, in summation, humor works everywhere, not just in writing or on tv.”
“In addition to — or perhaps in summation of — these factors, is the fuzzy, new age-y feeling that being here, now, is somehow just not quite right.”
“So in summation – can this shrill, self absorbed woman please leave the stage.”
“So in summation, your willingness to defend a coward who consistently provides aid and comfort to an enemy in time of war does not speak well of your own character.”
“If some secret principle of summation is at work here, I do not feel qualified to articulate it and, as far as the general question of romanticism is concerned, I must leave the task of its historical definition to others (RR viii).”
“If some secret principle of summation is at work here,”
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