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Summary vs Summation - What's the difference?

summary | summation |

As nouns the difference between summary and summation

is that summary is an abstract or a condensed presentation of the substance of a body of material while summation is a summarization.

As an adjective summary

is concise, brief or presented in a condensed form.

summary

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Concise, brief or presented in a condensed form
    • A summary review is in the appendix.
  • Performed speedily and without formal ceremony.
    • They used summary executions to break the resistance of the people.
  • (legal) Performed by cutting the procedures of a standard and fair trial.
    • Summary justice is bad justice.

    Noun

    (wikipedia summary) (summaries)
  • An abstract or a condensed presentation of the substance of a body of material.

    • Synonyms

    * upshot, bottom line, short form (slang)

    Derived terms

    * executive summary * management summary

    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 *