<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>the act or process of summing.</li><li>the result of this; an aggregate or total.</li><li>a review or recapitulation of previously stated facts or statements, often with a final conclusion or conclusions drawn from them.</li><li>Law: the final arguments of opposing attorneys before a case goes to the jury.</li><li>Physiology: the arousal of impulses by a rapid succession of stimuli, carried either by separate sensory neurons (spatial summation) or by the same sensory neuron (temporal summation).</li></ul>