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Synonyms for summation

Grammar : Noun
Spell : suh-mey-shuh n
Phonetic Transcription : səˈmeɪ ʃən

Définition of summation

Origin :
  • 1760, from Modern Latin summationem (nominative summatio) "an adding up," from Late Latin summatus, past participle of summare "to sum up," from Latin summa (see sum).
  • noun summary
Example sentences :
  • In which summation he showed himself indeed a “sumner,” as it was called of yore.
  • Extract from : « Memoirs » by Charles Godfrey Leland
  • Continued proportion, the series and the summation of the series.
  • Extract from : « Electric Gas Lighting » by Norman H. Schneider
  • He also seems to agree with your summation of the Islamic problem.
  • Extract from : « Black Man's Burden » by Dallas McCord Reynolds
  • A number of us were doing our best to apprehend the summation of all this flood of change.
  • Extract from : « What is Coming? » by H. G. Wells
  • He is the summation of selfishness because he puts his decisions and determinations above those of any or all others.
  • Extract from : « Idling in Italy » by Joseph Collins
  • I shouldn't have cared a copper for the misrepresentation were it not a "summation of stimuli" affair.
  • Extract from : « The Letters of William James, Vol. II » by William James
  • I shall now give an account of my experiments in the period of latency and the summation of stimuli.
  • Extract from : « Jellyfish, Starfish, and Sea-Urchins: Being a Research on Primitive Nervous Systems » by G. J. Romanes
  • For a radical empiricism, knowledge would consist of descriptive generalizations based upon the summation of instances.
  • Extract from : « The Approach to Philosophy » by Ralph Barton Perry
  • The summation is defined as the increase in entropy between the initial and the final states.
  • Extract from : « The New Gresham Encyclopedia » by Various
  • As a practice of building, changing, and destroying coalitions, politics today is a summation of human practice.
  • Extract from : « The Civilization of Illiteracy » by Mihai Nadin

Antonyms for summation

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