sum
/sˈʌm/ · 1 syllable
Meaning
noun
- a quantity of money
“he borrowed a large sum” - 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” - the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
“the gist of the prosecutor's argument” - the whole amount
- 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”
verb
- be a summary of
“The abstract summarizes the main ideas in the paper” - determine the sum of
“Add all the people in this town to those of the neighboring town”
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