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sum

noun
/sʌm/UK

Etymology

* As a Chinese surname: ** a pronunciation of 沈, see Shen. ** Also Romanized from 岑 (cén) based on the Cantonese pronunciation, see Cen. ** Variant Romanization of 覃, see Tan, Qin. * As a Cambodian/Khmer surname, from the name ស៊ុំ (sum), possibly from the Chinese above. * As a Slovene and Czech surname Šum, from šum (“noise”) or šum (“waterfall”), compare Shum. * As a Jewish surname, from Polish sum (“catfish”).

  1. derived from sum — “catfish”

Definitions

  1. A quantity obtained by addition or aggregation.

    • The sum of 3 and 4 is 7.
    • Take yee the ſumme of all the Congregation of the children of Iſrael,[…]
    • "Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing."

  2. An arithmetic computation, especially one posed to a student as an exercise (not…

    An arithmetic computation, especially one posed to a student as an exercise (not necessarily limited to addition).

    • We're learning about division, and the sums are tricky.
    • […] a large sheet of paper […] covered with long sums […]
    • "I think it was a disgraceful performance from a captain that got his sums wrong today, and I think it should never be permitted to happen again."

  3. A quantity of money.

    • a tidy sum
    • the sum of forty pounds
    • […]With a great ſumme obteined I this freedome.
  4. ›+ 12 more definitions

    1. A summary

      A summary; the principal points or thoughts when viewed together; the substance.

      • This is the sum of all the evidence in the case.
      • This is the sum and substance of his objections.

    2. A central idea or point

      A central idea or point; gist.

    3. The utmost degree

      The utmost degree; the greatest or most perfect realization (of some concept).

      • Thus I have told thee all my State, and brought / My Storie to the ſum of earthly bliſs[…]
      • Our wisdom and skill cannot save us from accidents, pains, and from that sum of all fears and distresses—death.

    4. An old English measure of corn equal to the quarter.

      • The sum is also used for the quarter, and the strike for the bushel.

    5. To add together.

      • when you say that stability and change are, it's because you're summing them up together as embraced by it, and taking note of the communion each of them has with being.

    6. To give a summary of.

    7. The basic unit of money in Kyrgyzstan.

    8. The basic unit of money in Uzbekistan.

    9. Eye dialect spelling of some.

      • Females can smell when they nigga doing sum sneaky shit 😂

    10. Pronunciation spelling of something.

      • Tony hawk such a fire name bro was bound to do sum cool
      • we got a lil sum goin on over here
      • 21 went a lil sum like this🎈

    11. A type of administrative district used in China, Mongolia, and Russia. In Mongolia, a sum…

      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.

    12. A surname.

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Derived

Abel sum, Appell-Lerch sum, checksum, digit sum, direct sum, formal sum, in sum, linear sum, lump sum, Murasugi sum, negative-sum, partial sum, positive-sum, princely sum, Ramanujan's sum, rank sum, residual sum of squares, Riemann sum, ring sum normal form, semisum, sum and substance, sum assured, sumless, summist, sum of best, sum of its parts, sum of parts, sumset, sum-total, sumtree, sum-up, sum up, vector sum, wedge sum, zero-sum, zero-sum game, outsum, oversum, resum, summability · +2 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at sum. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at sum. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at sum

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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