total
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See also: totál
Alternative forms
- totall (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English total, from Old French total, from Medieval Latin tōtālis, from tōtus (“all, whole, entire”) + -ālis, the former element of unknown origin. Perhaps related to Oscan 𐌕𐌏𐌖𐌕𐌏 (touto, “community, city-state”), Umbrian 𐌕𐌏𐌕𐌀𐌌 (totam, “tribe”, acc.), Old English þēod (“a nation, people, tribe”), from Proto-Indo-European *tewtéh₂ (“people”). More at English Dutch, English thede.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈtəʊ.təl/
- (General American) enPR: tōʹtl, IPA(key): /ˈtoʊ.təl/, [tʰoʊ̯ɾɫ], [tʰɔɾɫ]
Audio (California): (file) - Rhymes: -əʊtəl
Noun
total (plural totals)
- An amount obtained by the addition of smaller amounts.
- A total of £145 was raised by the bring-and-buy stall.
- (informal, mathematics) Sum.
- The total of 4, 5 and 6 is 15.
Synonyms
- (sum): sum
Translations
amount
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sum
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See also
Other terms used in arithmetic operations:
- successor
- addition, summation:
- subtraction:
- (minuend) − (subtrahend) = (difference)
- multiplication, factorization:
- (multiplier) × (multiplicand) = (product)
- (factor) × (factor) × (factor)... = (product)
- division:
- exponentiation:
- root extraction:
- logarithmization:
- log(base) (antilogarithm) = (logarithm)
Advanced hyperoperations: tetration, pentation, hexation
Adjective
total (comparative more total, superlative most total)
- Entire; relating to the whole of something.
- The total book is rubbish from start to finish. The total number of votes cast is 3,270.
- 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter II, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
- Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, […]. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.
- 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 145:
- Each member brought a unique musical influence to the total sound.
- 2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
- Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.
- (used as an intensifier) Complete; absolute.
- He is a total failure.
- (mathematics, of a function) Defined on all possible inputs.
- The Ackermann function is one of the simplest and earliest examples of a total computable function that is not primitive recursive.
- (mathematics, more generally, of a relation R on X × Y) Left total: Such that for every x in X there is a y in Y with x R y.
- (mathematics, of a partial order ≤) Such that any two elements are comparable, i.e. for all a and b, either a ≤ b, or b ≤ a.
- Hyponyms: connected, complete, strongly connected
Synonyms
- (entire): entire, full, whole; see also Thesaurus:entire
- (complete): absolute, complete, utter; see also Thesaurus:total
Translations
entire
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complete
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Verb
total (third-person singular simple present totals, present participle (UK) totalling or (US) totaling, simple past and past participle (UK) totalled or (US) totaled)
- (transitive) To add up; to calculate the sum of.
- Synonym: sum
- When we totalled the takings, we always got a different figure.
- To equal a total of; to amount to.
- That totals seven times so far.
- (transitive, US, slang) To demolish; to wreck completely. (from total loss)
- 1972, Frank Zappa (lyrics and music), “Billy the Mountain”:
- He acted real funny / He hocked up a rock and / It totaled my car!
- (intransitive) To amount to; to add up to.
- It totals nearly a pound.
Translations
to add up
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to equal after calculation
to demolish
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Derived terms
from all parts of speech
- grand total
- in total
- left total
- right total
- subtotal
- sum-total
- sum total
- total allergy syndrome
- total base number
- total bases
- total body day
- total clearance
- total conversion
- total conversion mod
- total depravity
- total digestible nutrients
- total eclipse
- total-etch
- total football
- total function
- total group
- total hardness
- total internal reflection
- total internal reflexion
- totalism
- totalitarian
- totality
- totally
- total object
- total order
- total ordering relation
- total package
- total quality management
- total recall
- total return swap
- total revenue
- total ring of fractions
- total running time
- total station
- total story time
- total synthesis
- total up
- total war
Anagrams
Etymology
From Medieval Latin tōtālis.
Adjective
Noun
total m (plural totales)
Derived terms
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