sum has definitions from the field of mathematics
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[ noun ] a quantity of money

Examples

"he borrowed a large sum" "the amount he had in cash was insufficient"

Used in print

(Jack Kaplan, "The Health Machine Menace: Therapy by...)

Look_at the sums paid by two device quack victims in Cleveland .

Authorities hesitate to quote exact figures , however , believing that any sum they come_up with is only a surface manifestation - turned_up by their inevitably limited policing - of the real loot of the medical racketeer .

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[ noun ] (mathematics) a quantity obtained by addition

Synonyms

total amount

Used in print

(Frederick Mosteller et al., Probability with...)

The several trials of a binomial experiment produce a new random_variable X , the total number of successes , which is just the sum of the random_variables associated with the single trials .

Their sum is X , the total number of successes , which in this experiment has the value * * f .

Related terms

quantity polynomial total

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[ noun ] the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience

Examples

: "the gist of the prosecutor's argument" "the heart and soul of the Republican Party" "the nub of the story"

Used in print

(John Cheever, "The Brigadier and the Golf Widow,"...)

Twenty years ago , she would have been known as a golf_widow , and the sum of her manner was perhaps one of bereavement .

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[ noun ] the whole amount

Used in print

(Helen Hooven Santmyer, "There Were Fences"...)

Time in the sum is nothing .

Related terms

whole total aggregate

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[ noun ] the final aggregate

Synonyms

summation sum_total

Examples

"the sum of all our troubles did not equal the misery they suffered"

Used in print

(Kenneth Hoffman and Ray Kunze, Linear Al...)

Then every linear_operator T on V can be written as the sum of a diagonalizable operator D and a nilpotent operator N which commute .

Related terms

collection aggregate total

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[ verb ] be a summary of

Examples

"The abstract summarizes the main ideas in the paper"

Related terms

state sum_up summary

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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 19407
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[ noun ] the basic unit of money in Uzbekistan
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[ verb ] determine the sum of

Examples

"Add all the people in this town to those of the neighboring town"

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count add count summation

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[ noun ] a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets

Synonyms

join union

Examples

"let C be the union of the sets A and B"

Related terms

set direct_sum

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