summation
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English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /sʌˈmeɪʃən/
Noun
summation (countable and uncountable, plural summations)
- summarization; summary; summing up.
- 2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Bournemouth (circa 1880)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 59:
- In a summation of changed times, we have a lost station site in Bournemouth (now occupied by a coach park) as well as its former hotel (still clinging on as apartments).
- (mathematics) summing; summing up; adding (adding up) of a series of items.
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Translations
mathematics: an adding up of a series of items
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See also
- addition, summation: (augend) + (addend) = (summand) + (summand) = (sum, total)
- subtraction: (minuend) − (subtrahend) = (difference)
- multiplication: (multiplier) × (multiplicand) = (factor) × (factor) = (product)
- division: (dividend) ÷ (divisor) = (quotient), remainder left over if divisor does not divide dividend
- integration
- Σ
References
- “summation”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.