Meaning

A whole that is more than the sum of its parts; superaddition..

Definitions by Sense

1. A whole that is more than the sum of its parts; superaddition.
2. To add up incorrectly, arriving at a total that is too large.

Example Sentences

The tradition consists in understanding a politically active unit as an oversum (that is, a super-additive entity): The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

It follows from this counterbalance of majority rule and inalienable absolutes within a given society that the latter is ordered according to the oversum principle: The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

Democracy requires an oversum, a koiné, a res publica, a Genossenschaft, a commonwealth, a League such as the Iroquois, a Tewa-Pueblo, that is, an entity of which the citizens are members with membership duties and rights.

The Saxonian tradition does not know or rejects the cooperative, the oversum, or superaddition.

Thus SB is an over-sum effect.

In an account in the ledger, which has been ruled off as square, it is found that the credit side has been oversummed by £ 100.

and in measure your measure you always oversum — and now I have now come to tell you that this is the last time that I shall never call again and you only want

Sometimes the totals are found to be short of the amounts entered in the Cash Book. In other cases, the sheets are found to be systematically oversummed; while again "dummy" mon may be inserted, or the calculations of the details of the pay may be overstated.

Word Forms

• oversums
• oversumming
• oversummed

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When Should You Use Oversum?

Use oversum when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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