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formal sum

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.09 in modern English

Syllables
for-mal -sum
IPA
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An expression which looks like a sum but where the symbol + has a purely symbolic role, in the sense that the summands cannot be meaningfully combined.

noun

An expression which looks like a sum but where the symbol + has a purely symbolic role, in the sense that the summands cannot be meaningfully combined.

Inflected Forms

formal sums (plural)

Questions

What does formal sum mean?
An expression which looks like a sum but where the symbol + has a purely symbolic role, in the sense that the summands cannot be meaningfully combined.

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