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summation

[suh-mey-shuhn] / səˈmeɪ ʃən /
NOUN
summary
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Vincent, chief investment officer and founder of Summation Capital and a former investment officer for Cornell University’s endowment, joined Soho House in the early 2000s when it opened near his home in the West Village.

From Salon • May 30, 2025

Summation works from heavy hitters like Martin Scorsese and Hayao Miyazaki jockey with titles from well-heeled upstarts like Sofia Coppola and Yorgos Lanthimos.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 30, 2023

Summation can be spatial or temporal, meaning it can be the result of multiple graded potentials at different locations on the neuron, or all at the same place but separated in time.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

Figure 12.26 Postsynaptic Potential Summation The result of summation of postsynaptic potentials is the overall change in the membrane potential.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

Summation, sum-ā′shun, n. act of summing or forming a total amount: an aggregate.—adjs.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various




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