Usually means: Total resulting from adding numbers.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. sum: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sum: Merriam-Webster
  3. sum: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sum, sum: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sum: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sum: Vocabulary.com
  7. Sum, sum: Wordnik
  8. sum: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Sum, sum: Wiktionary
  10. sum, sum-: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. sum, sum-: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. sum: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. SUM, sum-: Dictionary.com
  14. sum: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. sum: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. S.U.M, SUM (interbank network), SUM, Sum (Mongolia), Sum (Unix), Sum (category theory), Sum (country subdivision), Sum (subnational entity), Sum: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Sum: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. sum: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. sum: Rhymezone
  20. sum: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. sum: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. sum: FreeDictionary.org
  23. sum: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. sum: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. sum: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. -sum: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements
  2. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. sum: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. sum: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sum: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. sum: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. sum: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. sum: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. SUM: Acronym Finder
  3. SUM: Three Letter Words with definitions
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. sum: Idioms

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sum: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. sum: MATH SPOKEN HERE!
  3. sum, sum: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  4. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. s'um, sum: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SUM: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING

(Note: See suming as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A quantity obtained by addition or aggregation.
noun:  (often plural) An arithmetic computation, especially one posed to a student as an exercise (not necessarily limited to addition).
noun:  A quantity of money.
noun:  A summary; the principal points or thoughts when viewed together; the substance.
noun:  A central idea or point; gist.
noun:  (rare or literary) The utmost degree; the greatest or most perfect realization (of some concept).
noun:  (obsolete) An old English measure of corn equal to the quarter.
verb:  (transitive) To add together.
verb:  (transitive) To give a summary of.
noun:  The basic unit of money in Kyrgyzstan.
noun:  The basic unit of money in Uzbekistan.
noun:  A type of administrative district used in China, Mongolia, and Russia. In Mongolia, a sum is smaller than a province. In China, it is only used in Inner Mongolia, where it is equivalent to a township.
noun:  A surname.

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