Associations to the word «Summation»

Wiktionary

SUMMATION, noun. A summarization.
SUMMATION, noun. (mathematics): An adding up of a series of items.
SUMMATION PLURAL, noun. A plurale tantum

Dictionary definition

SUMMATION, noun. A concluding summary (as in presenting a case before a law court).
SUMMATION, noun. (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.
SUMMATION, noun. The final aggregate; "the sum of all our troubles did not equal the misery they suffered".
SUMMATION, noun. The arithmetic operation of summing; calculating the sum of two or more numbers; "the summation of four and three gives seven"; "four plus three equals seven".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats