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summation
[ suh-mey-shuhn ]
noun
- the act or process of summing.
- the result of this; an aggregate or total.
- a review or recapitulation of previously stated facts or statements, often with a final conclusion or conclusions drawn from them.
- Law. the final arguments of opposing attorneys before a case goes to the jury.
- Physiology. the arousal of impulses by a rapid succession of stimuli, carried either by separate sensory neurons spatial summation or by the same sensory neuron temporal summation.
summation
/ ²õʌˈ³¾±ðɪʃə²Ô /
noun
- the act or process of determining a sum; addition
- the result of such an act or process
- a summary
- law the concluding statements made by opposing counsel in a case before a court
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Derived Forms
- ˈ²õ³Ü³¾³¾²¹³Ù¾±±¹±ð, adjective
- ²õ³Ü³¾Ëˆ³¾²¹³Ù¾±´Ç²Ô²¹±ô, adjective
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ²õ³Ü³¾Â·³¾²¹î€ƒt¾±´Ç²Ô·²¹±ô adjective
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of summation1
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of summation1
C18: from Medieval Latin ²õ³Ü³¾³¾Äå³Ù¾±Å, from ²õ³Ü³¾³¾Äå°ù±ð to total, from Latin summa sum 1
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The summation of my sources’ answers didn’t surprise me, but it did leave me asking more.
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With the leadership mantle passing from the former president to his understudy, Mondale offered a laudatory summation of the Carter administration.
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She becomes the summation of her own tragedies that she played on the stage.â€
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"It's a pretty accurate summation of what it was when I first got down here," says O'Rourke.
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On his final day as an MP, Wragg had a consultation with a psychologist, which he jokes is "a fitting summation" of his nine years in the Commons.
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