Definitions for summation

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summation sum·ma·tion

Spelling: [suh-mey-shuh n]

IPA: /səˈmeɪ ʃən/

Summation is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 460 anagrams from letters in summation (aimmnostu).

Definitions for summation

noun

1. the act or process of summing.
2. the result of this; an aggregate or total.
3. a review or recapitulation of previously stated facts or statements, often with a final conclusion or conclusions drawn from them.
4. Law. the final arguments of opposing attorneys before a case goes to the jury.
5. Physiology. the arousal of impulses by a rapid succession of stimuli, carried either by separate sensory neurons (spatial summation) or by the same sensory neuron (temporal summation)

Origin of summation

1750-60; Medieval Latin summātiōn- (stem of summātiō), equivalent to summāt(us) (past participle of summāre to sum; see

Examples for summation

I shall now give an account of my experiments in the period of latency and the summation of stimuli.

In which summation he showed himself indeed a “sumner,” as it was called of yore.

“She is not Amanda the Ripper,” Bongiorno told the jury in her summation.

He also seems to agree with your summation of the Islamic problem.

I shouldn't have cared a copper for the misrepresentation were it not a "summation of stimuli" affair.

Per Kundera, tweets and blogs translate every link, adding ideology in the guise of summation.

"3 words... Los Angeles Lifetime," suggested Tim Smith, a New York artists' studio manager, in a summation of the season.

A number of us were doing our best to apprehend the summation of all this flood of change.

He is the summation of selfishness because he puts his decisions and determinations above those of any or all others.

Continued proportion, the series and the summation of the series.