Summation - Definition

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