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Summation

noun

A concluding summary (as in presenting a case before a law court). Synonyms: rundown, summing up.

(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.

The final aggregate. Synonyms: sum, sum total.

The arithmetic operation of summing; calculating the sum of two or more numbers. Synonyms: addition, plus. "Four plus three equals seven"

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... with macron"; [h.] "h with dot below"; [vs] "s with caron"; and so forth. In the article BALLISTICS, [Integral,a:b] or [Sum,a:b] indicates a definite integral or a summation between lower limit a and upper limit b. [Integral] by itself indicates an indefinite integral. [3].6090480 etc. denote ...

— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 - "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" • Various

... Upon summation one may speculate as to whether the doctrine of divisible divorce, as developed by Justice Douglas in Estin v. Estin, 334 U.S. 541 (1948), has not become the prevailing standard for determining the enforceability of foreign divorce decrees. If such be the case, it ...

— The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation • Edward Corwin

... idea of totality must be radically distinguished from the liberalistic conception of the mass. According to the liberalistic interpretation the whole consists of a summation of its parts. According to the National Socialist organic conception the whole comes before the parts; it does not arise from the parts but it is already contained in the parts themselves; all parts are microcosmic forms of the whole. This organic conception of the whole is the deepest natural ...

— Readings on Fascism and National Socialism • Various

... qualities and charms seem to be to the awakening of the tender emotion, it is rather dull, perhaps, to ask why. Yet one weakly asks it," was Mrs. Warren's summation. ...

— Emily Fox-Seton - Being The Making of a Marchioness and The Methods of Lady Walderhurst • Frances Hodgson Burnett

... system. It is true that from the greater shocks the children of the well-to-do are as a rule carefully guarded. No one threatens or ill-uses them. They are not terrified by drunken brawls or scenes of passion. They are not made fearful by the superstitions of ignorant people. Nevertheless, by the summation of stimuli little emotions constantly repeated can have effects no less grave upon their nervous system. From this constantly acting irritation the child needs security. In the second place, he requires liberty ...

— The Nervous Child • Hector Charles Cameron

... who had protested the Sov officer's summation of the reasons for the West-world fracases, ...

— Frigid Fracas • Dallas McCord Reynolds

... task which the lover is ever attempting is a search for a formula for the summation of an infinite series of which love is the variable.—Few lovers ...

— Hints for Lovers • Arnold Haultain

... not a statute drawn up by a legislator; it is the interpretation and the summation which we give to the observed facts. The phenomena which we observe do not act in a particular manner because there is a law; but we state the "law" because they act in that particular manner. It cannot be said that the ...

— The Necessity of Atheism • Dr. D.M. Brooks