1 the whole number or amount when two or more numbers or amounts have been added together:
2 a calculation, especially a simple one, using such processes as adding, taking away, multiplying, or dividing:
3 a particular amount of money:
Share price slid by 1p to 142p fuelled by concerns that the company might offer too generous a sum for the proposed venture in India.
The sale of Germany's biggest commercial TV operator for an undisclosed sum follows a bidding contest.
Banks may not be prepared to open an account if the sum involved is too small.
large/huge/enormous sums Restrictions have been imposed by the government on the movement of large sums of money out of the country.
a small/modest/substantial sum A substantial sum has been set aside for litigation relating to the construction project.
an additional/cash/final sum The final sum an investor receives from a pension is dependent on the rate of investment growth.
vast/huge/considerable sums
a sum of $8/£2,000/€1.2m, etc. Legislation approved yesterday will raise a much-needed sum of £300,000 for use on the roads.
pay (out)/spend/invest a sum Deposits are non-recoverable cash sums paid just to reserve a property, with a further sum payable when contracts are exchanged.
earn/receive/owe a sum Victims of an explosion at a chemical works are set to receive large sums in compensation.
borrow/lend a sum First-time buyers are having to borrow huge sums to buy a home.
6 the number or amount that is the result of adding together two or more numbers or amounts:
7 a calculation that involves adding, subtracting, multiplying, or dividing numbers:
8 the whole of something after all the different features or parts of it are considered:
9 more powerful, effective, etc. as a whole than you would think if you considered the different features or parts that it consists of:
10 used at the end of a report or discussion before giving a short description of the main ideas or facts:
12 used in a humorous way to refer to an unexpectedly small amount of money:
Having sold the house she had a large sum of money at her disposal .
She left a large sum of money in her will to found a wildlife sanctuary.
Her divorce settlement included a lump sum of $2 million.
She was paid the mind-boggling sum of ten million pounds for that film.
To sum up, we have thus far established a sufficient condition for eradication to be optimal, and we have characterized the other possible qualitative solutions.
We obtain at the 2000 epoch, a sum squared error equals to 0.001, which represents a good result.
The "second-stage filter" has a larger receptive field than the "first-stage filters," and sums the nonlinearly transformed outputs of the first-stage filters.
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