summation
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ʃən noun
1.
the act or process of summing.
2.
the result of this; an aggregate or total.
3.
a review or recapitulation of previously stated facts or statements, often with a final conclusion or conclusions drawn from them.
4.
Law. the final arguments of opposing attorneys before a case goes to the jury.
5.
Physiology. the arousal of impulses by a rapid succession of stimuli, carried either by separate sensory neurons (spatial summation) or by the same sensory neuron (temporal summation)
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World English Dictionary
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| —n | |
| 1. | the act or process of determining a sum; addition |
| 2. | the result of such an act or process |
| 3. | a summary |
| 4. | (US) law the concluding statements made by opposing counsel in a case before a court |
| [C18: from Medieval Latin summātiō, from summāre to total, from Latin summa | |
| sum'mational | |
| —adj | |
| 'summative | |
| —adj | |
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Word Origin & History
summation
1760, from Mod.L. summationem (nom. summatio) "an adding up," from L.L. summatus, pp. of summare "to sum up," from L. summa (see sum).
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American Heritage
Medical Dictionary
summation sum·ma·tion (sə-mā'shən)
n.
The process by which multiple or repeated stimuli can produce a response in a nerve, muscle, or other part that one stimulus alone cannot produce.
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Encyclopedia Britannica
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summation
in physiology, the additive effect of several electrical impulses on a neuromuscular junction, the junction between a nerve cell and a muscle cell. Individually the stimuli cannot evoke a response, but collectively they can generate a response. Successive stimuli on one nerve are called temporal summation; the addition of simultaneous stimuli from several conducting fibres is called spatial summation.
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Example sentences
In the summation of probabilities, the total energy equals one photon.
Vest's summation to the jury at that trial has become familiar to dog lovers across the country through succeeding generations.
It's a formulation and summation of all that's out there.
Of course, that only gives a summation for a single frequency.
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