summation: Meaning and Definition of

sum•ma•tion

1. the act or process of summing.
2. the result of this; an aggregate or total.
3. a review or recapitulation of previously stated facts or statements, often with a final conclusion or conclusions drawn from them.
4. the final arguments of opposing attorneys before a case goes to the jury.
5. the arousal of impulses by a rapid succession of stimuli, carried either by separate sensory neuronsor by the same sensory neuron