Phrase Hound found 38 phrases and 133 compound words that contain sum. The most common are listed below. Open sum in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 38
- lump sumA relatively large single payment of money often paid and received instead of, or in addition to, a sequence of smaller payments.
- sum totalTotal; the result of adding a set of figures or counting a number of items.
- sum upTo produce a total by adding.
- dim sumA Cantonese-style meal traditionally eaten in the morning or early afternoon, comprising tea and food typically placed in small steamer baskets or on small plates, and often served from carts that move around from table to table in a …
- sum of partsAlternative form of sum of its parts: A group which can be seen as a mere juxtaposition of the elements that compose it; a collection of things in which there is no new property or added value that emerges from the interactions between its …
- sum of bestThe total combined time of the fastest segments or splits achieved in a speedrun of a video game, representing the theoretical fastest time that a speedrunner could achieve at their current level of skill.
- partial sumThe sum of the first n terms of an infinite series, where n is a finite number.
- empty sumThe result of adding no numbers, conventionally defined to equal zero.
- digit sumThe sum of all digits.
- direct sumcoproduct in some categories, like abelian groups, topological spaces or modules
- positive-sumPertaining to a game or situation where overall benefits to all participants can increase.
- zero-sumOf a system, where all gains are offset by exactly equal losses.
- choy sumA Chinese vegetable, a variety of Brassica rapa parachinensis subspecies, similar to bok choy but slimmer, with smooth green leaves and pale green stems, and clusters of flowers on the tips of the inner shoots.
- zero-sum gameA game (or a similar political or economic system) in which the gains of some players must equal the losses of others.
- sum and substanceThe essential meaning of written or spoken words; gist, crux.
- vector sumThe vector whose initial and final points are those of a series of other vectors laid end to end.
- sum of its partsA group which can be seen as a mere juxtaposition of the elements that compose it; a collection of things in which there is no new property or added value that emerges from the interactions between its parts.
- formal sumAn expression which looks like a sum but where the symbol + has a purely symbolic role, in the sense that the summands cannot be meaningfully combined.
- negative-sumOf a situation in which there is a net loss.
- Riemann sumA certain kind of approximation of an integral by a finite sum that is calculated by dividing the interval of integration into smaller sub-intervals and summing sample values of the integrand inside those sub-intervals multiplied by their …
- Abel sumGiven a power series f(x)=∑ₙ₌₀ ᪲a_nxⁿ that is convergent for real x in the open interval (0, 1), the value lim _(x→1⁻)∑ₙ₌₀ ᪲a_nxⁿ, which is assigned to f(1)=∑ₙ₌₀ ᪲a_n by the Abel summation method (or A-method).
- wedge sumA one-point union of a family of topological spaces.
- Murasugi sumThe union of a finite sequence of surfaces taken over a disk common to every adjacent pair of the sequence, such that the boundary of the disk comprises some even number of closed arcs, disjoint except at their endpoints, which are …
- choi sumAlternative spelling of choy sum: A Chinese vegetable, a variety of Brassica rapa parachinensis subspecies, similar to bok choy but slimmer, with smooth green leaves and pale green stems, and clusters of flowers on the tips of the inner …
- nullary sumAn empty sum.
Compound words 133
- checksumA number, derived by applying a suitable algorithm to some data, used to check whether errors have occurred in transmission, storage or data entry.
- resumTo perform resummation upon.
- abessiveOf, or relating to the grammatical case used in some languages to indicate absence.
- summabilityThe condition of being summable.
- oversumA whole that is more than the sum of its parts; superaddition.
- outsumTo exceed in number or quantity.
- semisumhalf the result of an addition
- summateTo sum, add up; perform a summation.
- summistSomeone who writes a summa; somene who sums up or writes a summary, especially of theological nature.
- LogSumExpA smooth maximum used by machine learning algorithms.