Definition of 'sum'

Noun

1. a quantity of money; "he borrowed a large sum"; "the amount he had in cash was insufficient"
      Synonyms: sum of money amount amount of money
2. a quantity obtained by the addition of a group of numbers
      Synonyms: amount total
3. the final aggregate; "the sum of all our troubles did not equal the misery they suffered"
      Synonyms: summation sum total
4. 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: kernel substance core center essence gist heart heart and soul inwardness marrow meat nub pith nitty-gritty
5. the whole amount
      Synonyms: total totality aggregate
6. the basic unit of money in Uzbekistan
7. 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: union join

Verb

1. be a summary of; "The abstract summarizes the main ideas in the paper"
      Synonyms: summarize summarise sum up
2. determine the sum of; "Add all the people in this town to those of the neighboring town"
      Synonyms: total tot tot up sum up summate tote up add add together tally add up

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