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Summation

noun

A concluding summary (as in presenting a case before a law court). Synonyms: rundown, summing up.

(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. Synonyms: sum, sum total.

The arithmetic operation of summing; calculating the sum of two or more numbers. Synonyms: addition, plus. "Four plus three equals seven"

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"Summation" Quotes from Famous Books

... that with books one makes others; it is with several volumes already printed that a new history of France or Spain is fabricated, without adding anything new. All dictionaries are made with dictionaries; almost all new geography books are repetitions of geography books. The Summation of St. Thomas has produced two thousand fat volumes of theology; and the same family of little worms that have gnawed the ...

— Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary • Voltaire

... U. S. patent 204400. The text of this patent speaks of dividing the second into "halves, quarters, eighths, etc." and in the summation of claims of "an escape wheel, A, provided with one or more pairs of pins..." showing that measuring tenths of a second with a five-pin escape wheel was not conceived at this time. It is interesting to note that in referring to the drawings shown in ...

— The Auburndale Watch Company - First American Attempt Toward the Dollar Watch • Edwin A. Battison

... not hope to make our readers understand what he accomplished, or how far he excelled his predecessors in his grasp and comprehension of them. For instance: if we tell them that in 1820 he wrote a paper "On the Theory and Summation of Series;" communicated to the Cambridge Philosophical Society his discovery that the two kinds of rotatory polarization in rock crystal were related to the plagihedral faces of that mineral; and issued an able treatise "On Certain Remarkable Instances ...

— The Story of the Herschels • Anonymous

... certain completely unempirical postulates concerning the nature of representation and by applying certain simple premises in all deductions concerning numerical extent. Then came Fechner, who assumed the summation of stimuli. And finally these views were determined and fixed by the much-discussed Weber's Law, according to which the intensity of the stimulus must increase in the proportion that the intensity of the sensation ...

— Robin Hood • J. Walker McSpadden