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  1. noun The act or process of adding; addition.
  2. noun A sum or aggregate.
  3. noun A concluding part of a speech or argument containing a summary of principal points, especially of a case before a court of law.
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  • Then he asked Yuki if she was ready to give her summation, and she said that she was. —  7th Heaven by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
  • In summation, the CD-ROM generation went through some growing pains. —  1UP RSS feed
  • In summation, we have a very active and promising pipeline, the initial revenues from which we expect to start seeing in late 2009. —  Biotech Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha
  • In her emotional rebuttal of Mach's summation, Zebell called Wilson's testimony "a load of crap" - in spite of the testimony by pastors at two Seguin churches who testified they'd known Wilson and his family all of the youth's life and that he was a good and truthful young man jurors should believe. —  The Gazette-Enterprise: News
  • In summation, Free To Good Home could be described as having a split personality. —  Hipster, please!: +1 blog of nerd music & culture
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. New Latin summātiō, summātiōn-, from Late Latin summātus, past participle of summāre, to sum up, from Latin summa, sum; see sum1.

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  1. = French sommation, from Middle Latin summatio(n-), admonition, literally ‘a summing up,’ from summare, sum up: see sum.
 

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