a concluding summary (as in presenting a case before a law court)

[ Syn: summing up , rundown ]

(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

the final aggregate; the sum of all our troubles did not equal the misery they suffered

[ Syn: sum , sum total ]

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: addition , plus ]