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temporal summation
[ tem-per-uhl suh-mey-shuhn, tem-pruhl ]
/ ˈtɛm pər əl səˈmeɪ ʃən, ˈtɛm prəl /
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noun
Physiology. See under summation (def. 5).
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Origin of temporal summation
First recorded in 1945–50
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