summation Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a concluding summary (as in presenting a case before a law court)
    summing up; rundown.
  2. noun (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. noun the final aggregate
    sum; sum total.
    • the sum of all our troubles did not equal the misery they suffered
  4. noun the arithmetic operation of summing; calculating the sum of two or more numbers
    addition; plus.
    • the summation of four and three gives seven
    • four plus three equals seven

WordNet

Sum*ma"tion noun
Etymology
Cf. F. sommation. See Sum, v. t.
Definitions
  1. 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.

Webster 1913