summation
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
summation
n 1: a concluding summary (as in presenting a case before a law
court) [syn: {summation}, {summing up}, {rundown}]
2: (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
3: the final aggregate; "the sum of all our troubles did not
equal the misery they suffered" [syn: {sum}, {summation},
{sum total}]
4: 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" [syn: {summation},
{addition}, {plus}]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
77 Moby Thesaurus words for "summation":
abbreviation, abridgment, abstract, account, accounts, addend,
aggregate, amount, apocope, argument, body count, box score,
capitulation, cast, census, compression, condensation, conspectus,
core, count, curtailment, difference, elision, ellipsis, epitome,
essence, evidence, foreshortening, gist, head count, inventory,
main point, meat, nose count, number, pith, plus, plus sign,
precis, product, quantity, recap, recapitulation, reckoning,
recount, recounting, reduction, rehearsal, repertory, resume,
retrenchment, run-through, rundown, score, shortening, statement,
substance, subtotal, sum, sum and substance, summary, summing,
summing up, summing-up, syncope, synopsis, tale, tally,
telescoping, testimony, the bottom line, the story,
the whole story, total, truncation, whole, x number
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