Definition of Sum

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Definition of Sum

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.

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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Sum Quotations

A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government.
Thomas Jefferson

Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.
Wayne Dyer

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
Robert Frost

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
Aristotle

Hollywood is like life, you face it with the sum total of your equipment.
Joan Crawford

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.
Karl Marx

The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.
Leo Tolstoy

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
Margaret Mead

Sum Translations

sum in Afrikaans is bedrag
sum in Dutch is somma, som, bedrag, totaal, summa
sum in Finnish is summa
sum in French is somme
sum in German is Summe, Summe, addieren
sum in Latin is summa
sum in Portuguese is soma
sum in Spanish is importe, suma
sum in Swedish is summa, tal

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