Definition of "total"

total

/ˈtəʊ.təl/

noun
plural totals
1. An amount obtained by the addition of smaller amounts.
2. (informal, mathematics) Sum.
adjective
comparative more total, superlative most total
1. Entire; relating to the whole of something.
  Quotations
  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.
  1910, Emerson Hough, chapter II, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company
  Each member brought a unique musical influence to the total sound.
  1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, page 145
  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.
  2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847
2. (used as an intensifier) Complete; absolute.
3. (mathematics) (of a function) Defined on all possible inputs.
verb
third-person singular simple present totals, present participle (UK) totalling or (US) totaling, simple past and past participle (UK) totalled or (US) totaled
1. (transitive) To add up; to calculate the sum of.
2. To equal a total of; to amount to.
3. (transitive, US, slang) To demolish; to wreck completely. (from total loss)
  Quotations
  He acted real funny / He hocked up a rock and / It totaled my car!
  1972, Frank Zappa (lyrics and music), “Billy the Mountain”
4. (intransitive) To amount to; to add up to.

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