Dictionary

summation en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /sʌˈmeɪʃən/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Etymology tree English sum Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English summation From sum + -ation.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) 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. (countable, uncountable) Summing; summing up; adding (adding up) of a series of items.

Forms

Deriveds

Abel's summation formula · resummation · Borel summation · summation method · compensated summation · subsummation · Kahan summation algorithm · missummation · summational · in summation · summation plural · Ramanujan summation · Mittag-Leffler summation

Relateds

addition · × = × = (multiplication; multiplier) · integration · − = (subtraction) · remainder left over if divisor does not divide dividend (division) · Σ · + = · ÷ = (division; dividend) · sum · summate

Translations (21)

ka შეკრება (mathematics: an adding up of a series of items) · ro însumare (mathematics: an adding up of a series of items) · bg сумиране (mathematics: an adding up of a series of items) · es sumatorio (mathematics: an adding up of a series of items) · tl kadagupan (mathematics: an adding up of a series of items) · pl sumowanie (summarization) · is summumyndun (mathematics: an adding up of a series of items) · ca sumatori (mathematics: an adding up of a series of items) · pt somatório (mathematics: an adding up of a series of items) · pt somatória (mathematics: an adding up of a series of items) · eu batukari (mathematics: an adding up of a series of items) · tr toplama (mathematics: an adding up of a series of items) · sv summering (summarization) · sh zbrajanje (mathematics: an adding up of a series of items) · ka დაჯამება (mathematics: an adding up of a series of items) · el άθροιση (mathematics: an adding up of a series of items) · es sumatoria (mathematics: an adding up of a series of items) · it sommatoria (mathematics: an adding up of a series of items) · pl sumowanie (mathematics: an adding up of a series of items) · bg събиране (mathematics: an adding up of a series of items) · bg обобщение (summarization)