transcription, транскрипция: [ sʌm ]
( sums, summing, summed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
A sum of money is an amount of money.
Large sums of money were lost...
Even the relatively modest sum of £50,000 now seems beyond his reach.
N-COUNT : oft N of n
2.
A sum is a simple calculation in arithmetic.
I can’t do my sums.
N-COUNT
3.
In mathematics, the sum of two numbers is the number that is obtained when they are added together.
The sum of all the angles of a triangle is 180 degrees.
N-SING : the N of n
4.
The sum of something is all of it.
‘Public opinion’ is only the sum of the views of thousands of people like yourself...
N-SING : the N of n
5.
see also lump sum
6.
If you say that something is more than the sum of its parts or greater than the sum of its parts , you mean that it is better than you would expect from the individual parts, because the way they combine adds a different quality.
As individual members’ solo careers have proved, each band was greater than the sum of its parts.
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