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Overview vs Summation - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between overview and summation

is that overview is a brief summary, as of a book or a presentation while summation is a summarization.

As a verb overview

is to engage in an overview; to provide a brief summary.

overview

English

Noun

(wikipedia overview) (en noun)
  • A brief summary, as of a book or a presentation.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To engage in an overview; to provide a brief summary.
  • * 1976 , Elizabeth A. Freidheim, Sociological Theory in Research Practice [http://books.google.com/books?id=mtHEnnMKh3gC], ISBN 0870730150, page 313:
    • Gouldner, on the other hand, overviewed all of sociology as it exists in the Western world today, using Talcott Parsons as a "representative" example of its dominant mode of thought.

    summation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A summarization.
  • (mathematics): An adding up of a series of items.

    • Related terms

    * in summation * sum * summate

    See also

    * addition, summation: (augend) + (addend) = (summand) × (summand) = (sum, total) * subtraction: (minuend) ? (subtrahend) = (difference) * multiplication: (multiplier) × (multiplicand) = (factor) × (factor) = (product) * division: (dividend) ÷ (divisor) = (quotient), remainder left over if divisor does not divide dividend * integration *