summation
pronunciation
How to pronounce summation in British English:
UK [sʌˈmeɪʃn]
How to pronounce summation in American English:
US [səˈmeʃən]
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- Noun:
- a concluding summary (as in presenting a case before a law court)
- (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
- the final aggregate
- the arithmetic operation of summing; calculating the sum of two or more numbers
Word Origin
- summation (n.)
- 1760, "process of calculating a sum," from Modern Latin summationem (nominative summatio) "an adding up," noun of action from Late Latin summatus, past participle of summare "to sum up," from Latin summa (see sum (n.)). Meaning "a summing up" is from 1836.
Example
- 1. That was his summation of the case , his interpretation of the new europe .
- 2. But when the students hit the buffet table after the text summation , they took in an additional 203 calories .
- 3. We were missing only the galvanizing summation ; and we got it from president reagan : and I think that the countdown for communism began then .
- 4. After greeting the inhabitants of planet earth with salutations in a dozen languages , he waxed poetic about leica 's commitment to excellence , and included a simple summation : " our precision . Is . Perfect . "
- 5. According to mr fitzgerald 's summation , mr libby claimed , to the fbi and under oath to the grand jury , to be at the end of a gossip chain , passing what he heard from reporters on to other reporters without substantiation .