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Definition of Summation

1. Noun. A concluding summary (as in presenting a case before a law court).

2. 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.

3. Noun. The final aggregate. "The sum of all our troubles did not equal the misery they suffered"

4. Noun. The arithmetic operation of summing; calculating the sum of two or more numbers. "Four plus three equals seven"

Definition of Summation

1. n. The act of summing, or forming a sum, or total amount; also, an aggregate.

Definition of Summation

1. Noun. A summarization. ¹

2. Noun. (mathematics) : An adding up of a series of items. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Summation

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Summation

summarizes summarizing summary summary judgement summary judgment summary judgments summary offence summary treatment summas summat

summat else summate summated summates summating summation (current term) summation plural summational summations summative

summatively summats summed summed up summer summer's day summer-camp summer-house summer-like summer-stirring

Literary usage of Summation

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1904)
"Can any reflex movement occur without a summation of stimuli? All agree that much greater intensities of currents are required for the production of ..."

2. Catalogue of Scientific Papers, 1800-1900: Subject Indexby Royal Society (Great Britain), Herbert McLeod by Royal Society (Great Britain), Herbert McLeod (1908)
"Mth. SP 2 (1884)25-/ 1625 Finite summation. ring series. ... Binomial expansion, summation of terms. Pollock, (Sir) F. [1850] BSP 5 (1851) ..."

3. The conduction of the nervous impulse by Keith Lucas (1917)
"ATTEMPTS TO EXPLAIN summation. THE outcome of the experiments which I have described is to show that there is a type of summation obtainable in peripheral ..."

4. The conduction of the nervous impulse by Keith Lucas (1917)
"ATTEMPTS TO EXPLAIN summation. THE outcome of the experiments which I have described is to show that there is a type of summation obtainable in peripheral ..."

5. Combination Tones and Other Related Auditory Phenomena by Joseph Peterson (1908)
"Only one of the subjects was present at a time, and in no case did she know which fork of the group represented the summation tone. ..."

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