sum
IPA: sˈʌm
noun
- A quantity obtained by addition or aggregation.
- (often plural) An arithmetic computation, especially one posed to a student as an exercise (not necessarily limited to addition).
- A quantity of money.
- A summary; the principal points or thoughts when viewed together; the amount; the substance; compendium.
- A central idea or point; gist.
- The utmost degree.
- (obsolete) An old English measure of corn equal to the quarter.
- The basic unit of money in Kyrgyzstan.
- The basic unit of money in Uzbekistan.
- A type of administrative district used in China, Mongolia, and Russia. In Mongolia, a sum is smaller than a province. In China, it is only used in Inner Mongolia, where it is equivalent to a township.
- A surname.
verb
- (transitive) To add together.
- (transitive) To give a summary of.
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Examples of "sum" in Sentences
- The sums of money were allotted to the poor.
- The number is the sum of the infinite series.
- The number e is the sum of the infinite series.
- The totals are the sum of the numbers in each row.
- Reportedly she asked for a prohibitively large sum of money.
- Reportedly, she asked for a prohibitively large sum of money.
- The sum of the two, gives the total amount of labour embodied.
- The limit represents the number to which the sum is convergent.
- The total amount paid for the item is the sum of all the differences.
- The amount of heat exchanged with the hot reservoir is the sum of the two.
- “If the sum is not sufficient,” Dick said stiffly, “why name the sum you consider fair.”
- Individual accomplishments are important, but the sum is always greater in value than the individual parts.
- Our current system is a faltering machine whose product is benign genocide -- which I define as the sum total of global deaths that result from the way the system is set up.
- SELECT sum (p_numofrasname) as p_numofrasname, sum (nvl (p_numof1stareacnt,0)) as p_numof1stareacnt, sum (nvl (p_numof2stareacnt,0)) +sum (nvl (p_numof1stareacnt,0)) as p_numof2stareacnt
- Totos ego tredecim annos, quibus functus sum ministerio, sive in sacramentis, sive in aliis sacris celebrandis, exhortationibus aut precibus quae extant in Agendâ nostrâ, _nunquam usus sum_.
- The problem with the ‘vector sum’ formulation is that it ignores several crucial properties of the system: the ‘vectors’ are not independent, the ’sum’ feeds back into the individual vectors, and the operation of summation is non-linear.
- I remember that at another festivity given by the city to the Emperor a few years later, since all inscription had been exhausted, there were placed above the throne on which he was to sit, these words from Scripture, in gold letters: _Ego sum qui sum_, -- and no one was shocked. "
- Draining me of the last cent of my hard earnings, he would, however, occasionally -- when I brought {252} home an extra large sum -- dole out to me a sixpence or a shilling, with a view, perhaps, of kindling up my gratitude; but this practice had the opposite effect -- it was an admission of _my right to the whole sum_.
- The proportionate postage from this commerce, even at the ratio of the present West Indian postage, to and from Great Britain and her West Indian colonies, would be 110,000_l. _ yearly; but admitting that a sum equal to _one-half_ only of _this sum_ came from the letters sent through the British Post Office, the sum gained on this station yearly would be 55,000_l.