summer
Definitions
General Science
- verb to spend the summer in a place
Agriculture
- noun the season following spring and before autumn, when the weather is warmest, the sun is highest in the sky and most plants flower and set seed
Construction
- A horizontal beam supporting floor joists or a wall of a superstructure.
- Any heavy timber that serves as a bearing surface.
- A lintel of a door or window.
- A stone set on a column as a support for construction above, such as a base for a column-supported arch.
Real Estate
- noun a principal horizontal beam in a building used to support floor joists.
- noun a stone that lies on top of a pier, column or wall and supports one or more arches
Travel
- noun the warmest season of the year following spring, when plants begin to make fruit
Electronics
- synonymsumming circuit
- synonymsumming amplifier
- An amplifier whose output is proportional to the sum of two or more inputs. Also called summer (2).
- In computers, a logic circuit which adds two or more numbers or quantities.
- A circuit in which two or more input signals are combined to yield one output signal, which is proportional to the sum of the input signals. Also called summing network, summation circuit, or summation network.
Origin & History of “summer”
Summer is a general Germanic word, with relatives in German and Danish sommer, Dutch zomer, and Swedish sommar. It goes back ultimately to an Indo-European base *sem-, which also produced Welsh haf ‘summer’ and Sanskrit sámā ‘year, season’.
