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a quantity of money;
"he borrowed a large sum"
"the amount he had in cash was insufficient"
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a quantity obtained by the addition of a group of numbers
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the final aggregate;
"the sum of all our troubles did not equal the misery they suffered"
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the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience;
"the gist of the prosecutor's argument"
"the heart and soul of the Republican Party"
"the nub of the story"
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the whole amount
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a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets;
"let C be the union of the sets A and B"