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Dictionary definition for: Sum
1. (n) a quantity of money; "he borrowed a large sum" "the amount he had in cash was insufficient"
2. (v) be a summary of; "The abstract summarizes the main ideas in the paper"
3. (n) a quantity obtained by addition
4. (v) determine the sum of; "Add all the people in this town to those of the neighboring town"
5. (n) the final aggregate; "the sum of all our troubles did not equal the misery they suffered"
6. (n) the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience; "the gist of the prosecutor''s argument" "the heart and soul of the Republican Party" "the nub of the story"
8. (n) the basic unit of money in Uzbekistan
9. (n) a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets; "let C be the union of the sets A and B"
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