summation

Other forms of summation

plural

summations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about summation

What does summation mean?

summation means "a concluding summary (as in presenting a case before a law court)". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in summation?

summation has 3 syllables: sum-ma-tion. The stress falls on "ma". In IPA it is /səˈmeɪʃən/.

What is another word for summation?

Close synonyms include summing up, rundown, sum, sum total, addition. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is summation a common word?

summation is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with summation?

29 words rhyme with summation. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.