The sum of terms of a sequence is a series (mathematics).

If f(x) is a sum of several terms, the one with the largest growth rate is kept, and all others omitted.

In this limit, since the first term is a sum of terms all equalling , the momentum diffusion becomes .

Is it only a sum of terms?

In classical statistical mechanics, it is not really correct to express the partition function as a sum of discrete terms, as we have done.

M is the memory function showing, usually expressed as a sum of exponential terms for each mode of relaxation:

Forming a sum of several terms produces a polynomial.

Such an expression can always be rewritten as a sum of terms.

This approach has been the international standard ever since, and the complications arise as follows: the tide-raising force is notionally given by sums of several terms.

The multipole expansion is expressed as a sum of terms with progressively finer angular features.