summation : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: summation	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for summation
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
summation n a concluding summary (as in presenting a case before a law court) Synonym(s): summation, summing up, rundown (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 the final aggregate; "the sum of all our troubles did not equal the misery they suffered" Synonym(s): sum, summation, sum total 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" Synonym(s): summation, addition, plus
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Summation \Summa"tion\, n. [Cf. F. sommation. See {Sum}, v. t.] The act of summing, or forming a sum, or total amount; also, an aggregate. Of this series no summation* is possible to a finite intellect. --De Quincey.