summation

English

Etymology

From sum +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /sʌˈmeɪʃən/

Noun

summation (countable and uncountable, plural summations)

1. summarization; summary; summing up.
   • 2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Bournemouth (circa 1880)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 59:

     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).

2. (mathematics) summing; summing up; adding (adding up) of a series of items.

Derived terms

• Abel's summation formula
• Borel summation
• compensated summation
• in summation
• Kahan summation algorithm
• Mittag-Leffler summation
• Ramanujan summation
• summation method
• summation plural

 

Related terms

• sum
• summate

Translations

summarization

• Bulgarian: обобщение (bg) n (obobštenie)

mathematics: an adding up of a series of items

• Basque: batukari
• Bulgarian: събиране (bg) n (sǎbirane), сумиране n (sumirane)
• Catalan: sumatori m
• Georgian: დაჯამება (daǯameba), შეკრება (šeḳreba)
• Greek: άθροιση (el) f (áthroisi)
• Icelandic: summumyndun f
• Italian: sommatoria (it)
• Portuguese: somatório (pt) m, somatória (pt) f
• Romanian: însumare (ro) f
• Serbo-Croatian: zbrajanje (sh) n
• Spanish: sumatoria f, sumatorio (es) m
• Tagalog: kadagupan
• Turkish: toplama (tr)

See also

• addition, summation: (augend) + (addend) = (summand) + (summand) = (sum, total)
• subtraction: (minuend) − (subtrahend) = (difference)
• multiplication: (multiplier) × (multiplicand) = (factor) × (factor) = (product)
• division: (dividend) ÷ (divisor) = (quotient), remainder left over if divisor does not divide dividend
• integration
• Σ

References

• “summation”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.