English
Noun
en-noun|sg=sum of parts|-
- Having no more meaning than that of its individual parts combined, such as three apples having no meaning beyond apples numbering three.
#* 1600: w:William Shakespeare|William Shakespeare, s:The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark|The Tragedy of Hamlet (s:The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark#Scene_7.__Another_room_in_the_castle.|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."
See also
synergy
References
"Sum-Of-Parts Valuation" in Investopedia
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