summation
nounUK /sʌˈmeɪʃən/
Etymology From sum + -ation.
1
Summarization; summary; summing up.
- 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).2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Bournemouth (circa 1880)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 59:
2
Mathematics, Sciences Summing; summing up; adding (adding up) of a series of items.
- Derived terms
- Abel's summation formula, Borel summation, compensated summation, in summation, Kahan summation algorithm, missummation, Mittag-Leffler summation, Ramanujan summation, resummation, subsummation, summational, summation method, summation plural
- Related terms
- sum, summate, addition, + =, − =, × = × =, ÷ =, remainder left over if divisor does not divide dividend, integration, Σ