You can think of summation as the moment when many separate things are pushed together into one. A column of numbers becomes a single total; an hour of talk becomes one short paragraph at the end. Either way the picture is many-into-one, done once everything is in.

summation 可以想成「等東西都齊了,再把它們合成一個」。一排數字加起來,變成一個總數。一小時的討論收攏起來,變成最後那一段話。兩件事看起來差很遠,動作卻是同一個:把散開的東西併成一份。

From the word’s history

Wiktionary gives the word as sum + -ation, that is, the doing of summing.

來源資料把這個字拆成 sum(總和)加 -ation(把動作變成名詞),字面上就是「加總這件事」,正好對上它兩種用法底下的同一個動作。

Wiktionary, "summation"

One branch

加起來變成一個

登入就可以看這一支怎麼連回核心畫面。

total · noun

The total you get when two or more numbers or amounts are added together.

總和