summation
summation Lexical Profile
summation Game Scores & Validity
• noun
A final, concise overview or concluding statement that brings together the main points of a discourse; in law, the closing argument presented to a judge or jury.
"The defense attorney delivered a compelling summation that highlighted the inconsistencies in the prosecution's case."
The process of adding things together, or the resulting total; in mathematics, the addition of a sequence of numbers.
"The mathematical formula uses the Greek capital letter sigma to denote the summation of all terms in the series."
In physiology, the cumulative effect of a series of stimuli applied to a muscle or nerve that individually would be insufficient to elicit a response.
"Temporal summation occurs when a single presynaptic neuron fires action potentials in rapid succession to trigger the postsynaptic cell."