Definitions for SUM

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SUM sum

Spelling: [suhm]

IPA: /sʌm/

Sum is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 14 anagrams from letters in SUM (msu).

Definitions for SUM

noun

1. the aggregate of two or more numbers, magnitudes, quantities, or particulars as determined by or as if by the mathematical process of addition:
2. a particular aggregate or total, especially with reference to money:
3. an indefinite amount or quantity, especially of money:
4. a series of numbers or quantities to be added up.
5. an arithmetical problem to be solved, or such a problem worked out and having the various steps shown.
6. the full amount, or the whole.
7. the substance or gist of a matter, comprehensively or broadly viewed or expressed:
8. concise or brief form:
9. Mathematics. the limit of the sequence of partial sums of a given infinite series. union (def 10a).
10. a summary.

Verb phrases

1. sum up, to reckon: to bring into or contain in a brief and comprehensive statement; summarize: to form a quick estimate of:

verb (used with object)

1. to combine into an aggregate or total (often followed by up).
2. to ascertain the sum of, as by addition.
3. to bring into or contain in a small compass (often followed by up).

verb (used without object)

1. to amount (usually followed by to or into):

Origin of SUM

1250-1300; (noun) Middle English summe Latin summa sum, noun use of feminine of summus highest, superlative of superus (see superior); (v.) Middle English summen

Examples for SUM

I know that you have double the sum we want in ready money—so I make no ceremony.

When you solve a sum you go from "a" to "b" and from "b" to "c" and from "c" to "d" and so on.

In Vienna, L. 11,000 a-year is equal to twice the sum in England.

He gives his ambassador a sum on which a private gentleman can live, and no more.

But when it comes to the value of antiquities for human history, the sum of the parts is not greater than the whole.

In sum, SARS spread to many more countries than Ebola has so far.

As the economy soured, Californians began to think in terms of limited resources and came to see migration as a zero sum game.

On the other hand, they are viewing their donors, and their future children, not as whole people but as the sum of certain parts.

But you, sir—will any sum—that is, any reasonable sum—be of use to you?

Two years later, in 1959, the Germans proposed a settlement of less than half the sum Paul had claimed.