Hypertext Webster Gateway: "summation"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
summation
n 1: a concluding summary (as in presenting a case before a law
court) [syn: {summing up}, {rundown}]
2: the arithmetic operation of summing; calculating the sum of
two or more numbers; "the summation of four and three
gives seven"; "four plus three equals seven" [syn: {addition},
{plus}]
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