summation -
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"
sum-up,
summary a brief statement that presents the main points in a concise form; "he gave a summary of the conclusions"
jurisprudence,
law the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do
summation -
(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 is the operation of combining a sequence of numbers using addition; the result is their sum or total. An interim or present total of a summation process is termed the running total. The numbers to be summed may be integers, rational numbers, real numbers, or complex numbers, and other types of values than numbers can be added as well: vectors, matrices, polynomials, and in general elements of any additive group (or even monoid).
