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summation
has definitions from the fields of mathematics,writing,biology
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[ noun ] (writing) a concluding summary (as in presenting a case before a law court)
Synonyms Used in print (Brainard Cheney, "Christianity and the Tragic Vision-Ut...)And I select this sentence as its pertinent summation : `` In_essence the drama of his ( Eisenhower 's ) Presidency can be described as the ordeal of a nation turned conservative and struggling - thus_far with but limited and precarious success - to give effective voice and force to_that conservatism '' . |
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[ noun ] (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
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[ noun ] the final aggregate
Examples "the sum of all our troubles did not equal the misery they suffered" Related terms |
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[ noun ] (mathematics) the arithmetic operation of summing; calculating the sum of two or more numbers
Examples "the summation of four and three gives seven" "four plus three equals seven" Related terms |
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