oversum

plural oversums

1. A whole that is more than the sum of its parts; superaddition.

   Thus SB is an over-sum effect.

   2014, Bernd Lindemann, Mechanisms in World and Mind

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   The tradition consists in understanding a politically active unit as an oversum (that is, a super-additive entity): The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

   2004, Max-Planck-Institut für Ausländisches und Internationales Patent-, Urheber- und Wettbewerbsrecht, Max Planck series on Asian intellectual property law, page 8

   It follows from this counterbalance of majority rule and inalienable absolutes within a given society that the latter is ordered according to the oversum principle: The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

   2004, Christoph Antons, Michael Blakeney, Christopher Heath, Intellectual Property Harmonisation Within ASEAN and APEC, page 6

   Democracy requires an oversum, a koiné, a res publica, a Genossenschaft, a commonwealth, a League such as the Iroquois, a Tewa-Pueblo, that is, an entity of which the citizens are members with membership duties and rights.

   2006, Manfred O. Hinz, Helgard K. Patemann, The Shade of New Leaves, page 315

   The Saxonian tradition does not know or rejects the cooperative, the oversum, or superaddition.

   2008, Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Abhandlungen: Issue 132, page 343

present singular third person oversums · participle present oversumming · participle past oversummed · past oversummed

1. To add up incorrectly, arriving at a total that is too large.

   In an account in the ledger, which has been ruled off as square, it is found that the credit side has been oversummed by £ 100.

   1941, The Accountant's Magazine - Volume 45, page 314

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   and in measure your measure you always oversum — and now I have now come to tell you that this is the last time that I shall never call again and you only want

   1996, Dan Vogel, Early Mormon Documents - Volume 1, page 287

   Sometimes the totals are found to be short of the amounts entered in the Cash Book. In other cases, the sheets are found to be systematically oversummed; while again "dummy" mon may be inserted, or the calculations of the details of the pay may be overstated.

   2014, Roy A. Chandler, J. R. Edwards, Recurring Issues in Auditing (RLE Accounting)