summative

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Synonyms: summate, summation, summarize, sublative, summarise, summating, gemmative

Antonyms: summate, summation, summarize, sublative, summarise, summating, gemmative

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Adjective

1. {{senseid|en|concerning summation, in any sense thereof}} Of, pertaining to, or produced by [[summation]].
2. {{senseid|en|being of a quantifying type of assessment, in education}} {{lb|en|education}} Denoting forms of [[assessment]] used to [[quantify]] [[educational]] [[outcome]]s.

Noun

1. {{senseid|en|summative assessment, in education}} {{lb|en|education}} A summative [[assessment]]; a test that assesses what a student learned during a course of study.
2. {{senseid|en|word or phrase that signals summarizing}} {{lb|en|linguistics}} A [[word]] or [[phrase]], such as "[[in short]]" or "[[therefore]]", that signals that the area of the [[utterance]] ([[text]] or [[speech]]) that contains it is [[summarize|summarizing]] a larger body of information.
3. {{senseid|en|a cumulative measure}} A [[cumulative]] [[measure]].

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