User:Atitarev/sum of parts

English

Alternative forms

• sum of its parts

Noun

sum of parts (plural sums of parts)

1. (literally) Something made up of several parts.
   • 1600: William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet (Scene 7)

     It falls right. / You have been talk'd of since your travel much, / And that in Hamlet's hearing, for a quality / Wherein, they say, you shine: your sum of parts / Did not together pluck such envy from him / As did that one, and that, in my regard, / Of the unworthiest siege.

2. (linguistics) A sequence of words that has no more meaning than that of its individual parts when interpreted under grammatical rules, such as three apples having no meaning beyond apples numbering three.

Synonyms

(linguistics):

• SOP

Translations

something made up of several parts

• Finnish: osiensa summa
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Russian: сумма частей f (súmma častéj)

See also

• synergy
• collocation