sum

Nouns

• (n) a quantity of money
  • he borrowed a large sum
  • the amount he had in cash was insufficient
  amount, amount of money, sum of money,
• (n) a quantity obtained by the addition of a group of numbers total, amount,
• (n) the final aggregate
  • the sum of all our troubles did not equal the misery they suffered
  sum total, summation,
• (n) 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
  essence, heart and soul, inwardness, nitty-gritty, gist, pith, substance, kernel, meat, nub, core, center, heart, marrow, centre,
• (n) the whole amount aggregate, total, totality,
• (n) 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
  join, union,

Verbs

• (v) be a summary of
  • The abstract summarizes the main ideas in the paper
  summarise, summarize, sum up,
• (v) determine the sum of
  • Add all the people in this town to those of the neighboring town
  add together, summate, tot, tote up, tot up, add up, total, sum up, tally, add,

Synonyms

Words of close approximity