English noun: summation | |||
| 1. | summation (communication) a concluding summary (as in presenting a case before a law court) | ||
| Synonyms | rundown, summing up | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | sum-up, summary | ||
| Domain category | jurisprudence, law | ||
| 2. | summation (process) (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 | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | biological process, organic process | ||
| Domain category | physiology | ||
| 3. | summation (group) the final aggregate | ||
| Samples | The sum of all our troubles did not equal the misery they suffered. | ||
| Synonyms | sum, sum total | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | aggregate, congeries, conglomeration | ||
| 4. | summation (act) the arithmetic operation of summing; calculating the sum of two or more numbers | ||
| Samples | The summation of four and three gives seven. Four plus three equals seven. | ||
| Synonyms | addition, plus | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | arithmetic operation | ||