Meaning

3 senses
  1. A summative assessment; a test that assesses what a student learned during a course of study.

  2. 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 summarizing a larger body of information.

    Holonym: metadiscourse

  3. A cumulative measure.

Forms

plural: summatives
Singularsummative
Pluralsummatives

regular

Word family

1 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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