sum
Speech parts
1. sum - Noun
2. sum - Verb
3. sum - Pronoun
4. Sum - Proper noun
5. sum - Determiner
Meaning
The aggregate of two or more numbers, magnitudes, quantities, or particulars; the amount or whole of any number of individuals or particulars added together; as, the sum of 5 and 7 is 12.
A quantity of money or currency; any amount, indefinitely; as, a sum of money; a small sum, or a large sum.
The principal points or thoughts when viewed together; the amount; the substance; compendium; as, this is the sum of all the evidence in the case; this is the sum and substance of his objections.
Height; completion; utmost degree.
A problem to be solved, or an example to be wrought out.
To bring together into one whole; to collect into one amount; to cast up, as a column of figures; to ascertain the totality of; -- usually with up.
To bring or collect into a small compass; to comprise in a few words; to condense; -- usually with up.
To have (the feathers) full grown; to furnish with complete, or full-grown, plumage.
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Add all the people in this town to those of the neighboring town
The abstract summarizes the main ideas in the paper
Abang warned that if Maina jumped bail in an unlikely event, the court might either order the remand of Ndume in a correctional centre or for the surety to forfeit the penal sum.
1877–1891: Final years In 1884, Mrs. Melville received a legacy, which enabled her to allow Melville a monthly sum of $25 to spend on books and prints.
A better approach replaces the rectangles used in a Riemann sum with trapezoids.
A binary tree is generated from left to right taking the two least probable symbols and putting them together to form another equivalent symbol having a probability that equals the sum of the two symbols.