Meanings
plural summations
- countableuncountableSummarization; summary; summing up.
In a summation of changed times, we have a lost station site in Bournemouth (now occupied by a coach park) as well as its former hotel (still clinging on as apartments).
2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Bournemouth (circa 1880)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 59 - countableuncountablemathematicsSumming; summing up; adding (adding up) of a series of items.
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna concluding summary (as in presenting a case before a law court)
nounthe arithmetic operation of summing; calculating the sum of two or more numbers
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Basque batukari
- batukarimathematics: an adding up of a series of items
Bulgarian обобщение, събиране
- обобщение (obobštenie)summarization
- събиране (săbirane)mathematics: an adding up of a series of items
- сумиране (sumirane)mathematics: an adding up of a series of items
Catalan sumatori
- sumatorimathematics: an adding up of a series of items
Greek άθροιση
- άθροιση (áthroisi)mathematics: an adding up of a series of items
Icelandic summumyndun
- summumyndunmathematics: an adding up of a series of items
Italian sommatoria
- sommatoriamathematics: an adding up of a series of items
Polish sumowanie, sumowanie
- sumowaniesummarization
- sumowaniemathematics: an adding up of a series of items
Portuguese somatório, somatória
- somatóriomathematics: an adding up of a series of items
- somatóriamathematics: an adding up of a series of items
Romanian însumare
- însumaremathematics: an adding up of a series of items
Spanish sumatoria, sumatorio
- sumatoriamathematics: an adding up of a series of items
- sumatoriomathematics: an adding up of a series of items
Swedish summering
- summeringsummarization
Tagalog kadagupan
- kadagupanmathematics: an adding up of a series of items
Turkish toplama
- toplamamathematics: an adding up of a series of items
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with summation
Cite this entry
summation. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/summation
“summation.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/summation. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “summation,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/summation.
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