sum

Noun

sum (plural sums)

1. (arithmetic) A quantity obtained by addition or aggregation.

   The sum of 3 and 4 is 7.

2. (arithmetic) An arithmetic computation, especially one posed to a student as an exercise (not necessarily limited to addition.)
3. A quantity of money.
4. A summary.
5. A central idea or point.
6. The utmost degree.
7. (obsolete) An old English measure of corn equal to the quarter.
   • 1882, The sum is also used for the quarter, and the strike for the bushel. — James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 207.

Synonyms:

• (quantity obtained by addition or aggregation): amount, sum total, summation, total, totality
• (arithmetic computation): calculation, computation
• (quantity of money): amount, quantity of money, sum of money
• (summary): See summary
• (central idea or point): center/centre, core, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nub, nitty-gritty, pith substance
• (utmost degree): See summit
• (obsolete: old English measure of corn): quarter

3 letters in word "sum": M S U.

Anagrams of sum:

• mus

Words found within sum:

mu um us

• Definitions:
• a quantity of money; "he borrowed a large sum"; "the amount he had in cash was insufficient" a quantity obtained by the addition of a group of numbers the final aggregate; "the sum of all our troubles did not equal the misery they suffered" kernel: the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience; "the gist of the prosecutor's argument"; "the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; "the nub of the story" the whole amount summarize: be a summary of; "The abstract summarizes the main ideas in the paper" the basic unit of money in Uzbekistan union: a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets; "let C be the union of the sets A and B" total: determine the sum of; "Add all the people in this town to those of the neighboring town"
• Summation is the addition of a set of numbers; the result istheir sum. For evaluation of sums in closed form seeevaluating sums. The "numbers" to be summed may be natural numbers, complex numbers, matrices, orstill more complicated objects. An infinite sum is a subtle procedureknown as a series. ...
• Usage: sum [OPTION]... [FILE]...Print checksum and block counts for each FILE.
• In category theory, the coproduct, or categorical sum, is the category-theoretic construction which subsumes the disjoint union of sets and of topological spaces, the free product of groups, and the direct sum of modules and vector spaces. ...
• SUM is an interbank network network in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. It is comprised largely of smaller local banks and credit unions. Account holders at member institutions do not pay ATM usage fees for using ATMs of any other financial institution within the network.
• Sum, sumu, sumon, and sumuud are a type of administrative district used in Mongolia, Russia, and China.
• The result of numbers being added in an addition problem.
• The amount for which each section is insured. This will be shown in your policy schedule when you take out a policy.
• The result of adding numbers
• The answer to an addition question.
• the total of, as in: The sum of one and one is two.
• summation. The function needs two boxes containing the text above and below the summation sign respectively Usage: <$SUM <$$overtext><$$undertext>> where overtext is printed/displayed above the summation sign, and undertext is printed/displayed below the summation sign
• A group function which adds the values for a group. The attribute involved must be a number. For example, the sum function could be used to return the total number of credit hours students are taking.
• It is the first beat of any tal. Kathak Dancers returning on the "Sum" after completing a time cycle. Sum is accented more than any other beats. Sum is denoted by the sign ‘X’.
• (SUM): Sum of all values,
• adds the terms listed. Missing scores will be treated as zeros. No score is computed if all terms are missing.
• The result of adding a set of numbers or algebraic expressions.
• One. This is the first beat of a cycle where the emphasis is often placed.

• sulus ←
• sulu ←
• sultry ←
• sum
• → sumac
• → sumach
• → sumachs