Sentence examples for sum meaning from inspiring English sources

The crucial difference between the two is that the economic means production and exchange are positive sum, meaning that trade creates wealth.

Dim sum (meaning, literally, "touch the heart," but as far as I'm concerned it means "f***ing delicious") originated in Canton, but of course it's popular in Shanghai as well, and Yiming Wang and Xian Zhang of China Blue have selected judiciously, including small dishes like red bean puffs, savory bean curd wraps and Shanghai shumai in their New Year's menu.

This is because an infinite decimal expansion such as 3.14159… (the value of the constant π) actually corresponds to the sum of an infinite series 3 + 1/10 + 4/100 + 1/1,000 + 5/10,000 + 9/100,000 +⋯,and the concept of limit is required to give such a sum meaning.

Real estate in its current form is pretty zero-sum, meaning that for that person to move in, a Black or Brown person got pushed out.

For example, extreme high or low sum-scores are more unreliable compared to average sums scores, meaning that the extreme sum-scores are less likely to distinguish between the subjects than the sum-scores in the middle of the scale.

You think, 'Well, I'm not rooting for that person.'" Mr. Forsman asks actors to think about their characters playing a "positive sum game," meaning they can make gains without forcing other characters to take comparable losses.

And so going back to how does that affect real people on the ground--well, if you look at an economy as sort of what they call in game theory a zero sum game, meaning that's where the one percent versus 99percentt sort of terminology can be applied--if you look at an economy as this, you know, a hundred percent of something, and it's all going to the top--well, someone else is losing.

Bechtel has, since 1996, tripled the number of jobs it performs under lump-sum contracts, meaning that any cost or schedule overruns above a fixed price are swallowed by Bechtel.

After my initial (sizable) investment, I decided to keep my collection as a zero-sum game, meaning that whenever a guitar came in, one or more equaling the same value would go out.

Such studies can be done either as a search for a "total meaning" or a "sum of individual traits".

Transcripts were assigned to empirically defined expression patterns using the k-means clustering algorithm, which generally finds a clustering solution with a smaller within-cluster sum of distances (meaning a more homogeneous cluster) than hierarchical clustering techniques.