total

About 150.60 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun An amount obtained by the addition of smaller amounts.

   A total of £145 was raised by the bring-and-buy stall.

2. noun Sum.

   The total of 4, 5 and 6 is 15.

3. adjective 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.

4. adjective (used as an intensifier) Complete; absolute.

   He is a total failure.

5. adjective 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.

6. adjective Left total: Such that for every x in X there is a y in Y with x R y.
7. adjective Such that any two elements are comparable, i.e. for all a and b, either a ≤ b, or b ≤ a.
8. verb To add up; to calculate the sum of.

   When we totalled the takings, we always got a different figure.

Similar words

sum up sum tot up add up summate amount add number aggregate overall

Often followed by

of number amount cost population value area energy assets

Word family

totaled totaling totalled totalling totals