Sum

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.

Take ye the sum of all the congregation.

- Num. i. 2.

A quantity of money or currency; any amount, indefinitely; as, a sum of money; a small sum, or a large sum.

With a great sum obtained I this freedom.

- Acts xxii. 28.

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.

Thus have I told thee all my state, and brought
My story to the sum of earthly bliss.

- Milton.

(Arith.) A problem to be solved, or an example to be wrought out.

A sum in arithmetic wherein a flaw discovered at a particular point is ipso facto fatal to the whole.

- Gladstone.

A large sheet of paper . . . covered with long sums.

- Dickens.

Algebraic sum
as distinguished from arithmetical sum, the aggregate of two or more numbers or quantities taken with regard to their signs, as + or -, according to the rules of addition in algebra; thus, the algebraic sum of -2, 8, and -1 is 5.

In sum
in short; in brief. - Rogers.

v. t.

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.

[imp. & p. p. Summed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Summing.]

The mind doth value every moment, and then the hour doth rather sum up the moments, than divide the day.

- Bacon.

To bring or collect into a small compass; to comprise in a few words; to condense; - usually with up.

"Go to the ant, thou sluggard," in few words sums up the moral of this fable.

- L'Estrange.

He sums their virtues in himself alone.

- Dryden.

(Falconry) To have (the feathers) full grown; to furnish with complete, or full-grown, plumage.

But feathered soon and fledge
They summed their pens [wings].

- Milton.

Summing up
a compendium or abridgment; a recapitulation; a résumé; a summary.

Noun	1.	sum - a quantity of money; "he borrowed a large sum"; "the amount he had in cash was insufficient" Synonyms: amount of money, sum of money, amount
	2.	sum - a quantity obtained by addition Synonyms: total, amount
	3.	sum - the final aggregate; "the sum of all our troubles did not equal the misery they suffered" Synonyms: sum total, summation
	4.	sum - the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience; "the gist of the prosecutor's argument"; "the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; "the nub of the story" Synonyms: essence, heart and soul, inwardness, nitty-gritty, pith, gist, kernel, substance, nub, meat, core, center, heart, marrow
	5.	sum - the whole amount Synonyms: total, aggregate, totality
	6.	sum - the basic unit of money in Uzbekistan
	7.	sum - 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" Synonyms: join, union
Verb	1.	sum - be a summary of; "The abstract summarizes the main ideas in the paper" Synonyms: summarise, summarize, sum up
	2.	sum - determine the sum of; "Add all the people in this town to those of the neighboring town" Synonyms: add together, summate, tot, tot up, tote up, total, add up, sum up, tally, add

1.	(theory)	sum - In domain theory, the sum A + B of two domain s contains all elements of both domains, modified to indicate which part of the union they come from, plus a new bottom element. There are two constructor functions associated with the sum: inA : A -> A+B inB : B -> A+B inA(a) = (0,a) inB(b) = (1,b) and a disassembly operation: case d of isA This can be generalised to arbitrary numbers of domains. See also smash sum, disjoint union.
2.	(tool)	sum - A Unix utility to calculate a 16-bit checksum of the data in a file. It also displays the size of the file, either in kilobyte s or in 512-byte blocks. The checksum may differ on machines with 16-bit and 32-bit ints. Unix manual page: sum(1).

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