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The arithmetic operation of summing
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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 ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ And at the end of the day these will need summation in a single document. ▪ Reagan's testimony was indeed a dramatic summation of sorts, and the most bizarre of all. ▪ Then the output depends upon whether the result of the summation ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Summation , which includes both spatial and temporal summation, is the process that determines whether or not an action potential will be triggered by the combined effects of excitatory and inhibitory signals, both from multiple simultaneous inputs (spatial ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a concluding summary (as in presenting a case before a law court) [syn: summing up , rundown ] (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 ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Summation \Sum*ma"tion\, n. [Cf. F. sommation. See Sum , v. t.] The act of summing, or forming a sum, or total amount; also, an aggregate. Of this series no summation is possible to a finite intellect. --De Quincey.
Usage examples of summation.
As for their view of pragmatists, a succinct summation was first uttered in frustration by Representative Dick Armey of Texas in the late eighties, when Republicans were the long-standing minority in Congress.
And in that clear world, the Synthesis was talk and the Summation a promised sugar dollop meant to quiet children, not a thing podia took seriously for long.
Behind them the burning fortress groaned in ancient agony, a hundred timbrous voices expressing in final summation the anguish Pengalen had known in its span.
Years ago a lecturer at an American College of Trial Lawyers seminar had told Vecchio to use stories to make his points during summation.
Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling contained forty stories, eight poems, and an essay by Elizabeth Hand, along with detailed end-of-the-year summations by the editors, Edward Bryant, Charles Vess, Joan D.
EXISTS only as an abstraction exerting influence in the real world, a force acting upon imagination, a psychosocial web of hidden WILLS, a summation of biological, genetic, electromagnetic, microbiotic, social, pedagogic, psychological, karmic, cosmic, mythic, internal and external FORCES, a living IDEA, a socially-engineered MOON-CHILD, lurking around corners, creeping out of shadows, spilling from dreams, a macro-cabal whose roster includes not only the obvious -- Richard Nixon, the Vatican, ITT -- but also others preferring to remain silent and unseen.
Only after this has been done can conceptual analysis and summation of the meaning of his experiences be therapeutically productive.
Linda Ziegler made her closing argument, Dale followed with a passionate plea for leniency in his summation and argument, thenas California law allowedZiegler got the final word, presenting a summation that reminded the jurors that Cletus Calhoun was dead, and regardless of everything else, someone had to answer for that crime.
They may include elements of a summation, but they are not to be lengthy recapitulations of the trial.
The events are the concretes and the particulars, of which the speeches are the abstract summations.
When he had finished a succinct summation of why his life would be worth less than nothing after he had gotten an heir on one of Roelstra's daughters, Andrade smiled her approval.
He leaned back again, pleased with his summation of the events leading up to recent developments: denying the Hivers a new base from which to continue their unique form of colonization.
The Mentat philosopher had chewed deep into everything they accepted and what he disgorged did not agree with Archival dependence upon "our inviolate summations.
This is the smallest summation possible with any selection of dominoes from an ordinary box of twenty-eight.
But the puzzle is to make a selection of eighteen dominoes and arrange them (in exactly the form shown) so that the summations shall be 18 in all the fourteen directions mentioned.