summation
[suh-mey-shuh n]
- the act or process of summing.
- the result of this; an aggregate or total.
- a review or recapitulation of previously stated facts or statements, often with a final conclusion or conclusions drawn from them.
- Law. the final arguments of opposing attorneys before a case goes to the jury.
- 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).
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Origin of summation
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Contemporary Examples
Per Kundera, tweets and blogs translate every link, adding ideology in the guise of summation.
“She is not Amanda the Ripper,” Bongiorno told the jury in her summation.
"3 words... Los Angeles Lifetime," suggested Tim Smith, a New York artists' studio manager, in a summation of the season.
Historical Examples
In which summation he showed himself indeed a “sumner,” as it was called of yore.
MemoirsCharles Godfrey Leland
Continued proportion, the series and the summation of the series.
Electric Gas LightingNorman H. Schneider
He also seems to agree with your summation of the Islamic problem.
Black Man's BurdenDallas McCord Reynolds
A number of us were doing our best to apprehend the summation of all this flood of change.
What is Coming?H. G. Wells
He is the summation of selfishness because he puts his decisions and determinations above those of any or all others.
Idling in ItalyJoseph Collins
summation
- the act or process of determining a sum; addition
- the result of such an act or process
- a summary
- US law the concluding statements made by opposing counsel in a case before a court
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Word Origin
C18: from Medieval Latin summātiō, from summāre to total, from Latin summa sum 1
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Word Origin and History for summation
n.
1760, from Modern Latin summationem (nominative summatio) "an adding up," from Late Latin summatus, past participle of summare "to sum up," from Latin summa (see sum).
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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
summation
(sə-mā′shən)- The process by which multiple or repeated stimuli can produce a response in a nerve, muscle, or other part that one stimulus alone cannot produce.
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