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▪ I. summing, vbl. n.|ˈsʌmɪŋ| [f. sum v.1 or n.1 + -ing1.] 1. The calculation of a total amount; computation. (occas. summing up.)
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) II. 91 Eyþer manere summynge is as vnredy as oþer. c1537R. De Benese Meas. Lande A iiij b, Diuerse rules of summynge of measures. 1611Cotgr., Sommation, a summe, or, the summing, of money. 1836Penny Cycl. V. 164/2 (Book-keeping) At the annual summing up it is of great importance to distinguish them in the accounts. 1863Trevelyan Compet. Wallah (1866) 132 Will you ne'er have ceased apocalyptic summing, And left the number of the beast to puzzle Dr. Cumming? 1880Plain Hints Needlework 10 The judges have nothing to do with the..‘summing up’ of the marks given. 2. With (rarely without) up. The stating of the sum and substance of a matter; summarizing; a summary account or statement.
1546J. Heywood Prov. (1867) 26, I pray you paciently here the hole som. In fayth (quoth he) without any more summyng, I know to beg of me is thy commyng. 1800Gilpin Serm. (1803) II. xlii. 270 This is..the conclusion—the summing up of the whole work of redemption. 1858Hawthorne Fr. & It. Note-bks. I. 215 Michael Angelo's summing up of the world's history and destinies in his ‘Last Judgment’. 1883Athenæum 15 Dec. 771/3 The author's summing-up on the subject. 1889Jessopp Coming of Friars iv. 168 If any of us were to..attempt to discover..the intensity of any great plague..what would his summing-up amount to? 1898Daily News 10 Mar. 6/1 Such is Mr. Decle's summing of Khama. 3. With (rarely without) up. A judge's address to a jury, in which he reviews and comments upon the evidence adduced in the case before him: see sum v.1 5.
1790F. Burney Diary June, The Queen sent me..to hear the summing up of Mr. Fox. 1814J. Boswell Justic. Opera 71 The proof is strong, a verdict bring,..And so I end my summing. 1822Shelley Chas. I, ii. 391 A jury of children, who found him guilty without waiting for the summing-up. 1883Manch. Exam. 22 Dec. 5/3 A luminous and unimpeachably fair summing up by Lord Justice Clerk Moncrieff. 4. Doing ‘sums’ or arithmetical problems; the act of performing arithmetical operations.
1825Jennings Observ. Dial. W. Eng., Summin, arithmetic. 1828Miss Mitford Village Ser. iii. (1863) 11 Miss Mowbray, who was..too particular about summing. 1860Geo. Eliot Mill on Fl. ii. vii, There were no maps, and not enough ‘summing’. attrib.a1825Forby Vocab. E. Anglia 333 We have summing-schools, summing-books, and summing-masters. ▪ II. ˈsumming, ppl. a. [f. sum v.1 + -ing2.] 1. That sums or sums up; summarizing.
1860I. Burns Pastor of Kilsyth 248 The great and summing evil..is just ‘the quenching the spirit’. 1887Homeop. World 1 Nov. 501 The president made a few summing-up remarks. 2. Electronics. That performs summation; producing an output dependent on the sum of the inputs.
1948Electronics Apr. 124/3 The summing amplifier..is widely used in d-c and a-c servomechanisms. 1960Rogers & Connolly Analog Computation in Engin. Design ii. 13 When used in this manner, the operational amplifier is known as a summing amplifier. 1963B. Fozard Instrumentation Nucl. Reactors ix. 107 The point b corresponds to the summing junction in a computing amplifier. 1967Electronics 6 Mar. 120/2 A network between the output of a1 and the summing junction of a3 can be set to bring the total loop phase shift to 360°. 1981F. W. Hughes Op Amp Handbk. viii. 208 The inverting AC summing amplifier is similar to the inverting DC summing amplifier, except for the input capacitors. |