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sum

a quantity of money: "he borrowed a large sum"
a quantity obtained by addition
the final aggregate: "the sum of all our troubles did not equal the misery they suffered"
the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience: "the gist of the prosecutor's argument"
the whole amount
the basic unit of money in Uzbekistan
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"

be a summary of: "The abstract summarizes the main ideas in the paper"
determine the sum of: "Add all the people in this town to those of the neighboring town"

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