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total meaning

EN[ˈtəʊ.təl]
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  • Total may refer to:
  • NounPLtotals
    1. An amount obtained by the addition of smaller amounts.
      1. A total of £145 was raised by the bring-and-buy stall.
    2. (informal, mathematics) Sum.
      1. The total of 4, 5 and 6 is 15.
  • VerbSGtotalsPRtotallingPRtotalingPT, PPtotalledPT, PPtotaled
    1. (transitive) To add up; to calculate the sum of.
      1. When we totalled the takings, we always got a different figure.
    2. To equal a total of; to amount to.
      1. That totals seven times so far.
    3. (transitive, US, slang) to demolish; to wreck completely. (from total loss).
      1. Honey, I’m OK, but I’ve totaled the car.
    4. (intransitive) To amount to; to add up to.
      1. It totals nearly a pound.
  • AdjectiveCOMmore totalSUPmost total
    1. Entire; relating to the whole of something.
      1. The total book is rubbish from start to finish.  The total number of votes cast is 3,270. ‎
    2. (used as an intensifier) Complete; absolute.
      1. He is a total failure. ‎
  • More Examples
    1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
      • A total of 16,359 patients were included in these noninterventional studies.
      • On the other hand 1880 markers from spurious group account for 11.6% of total markers that exceed the range of 0.2–1.4% of markers prescribed[sic] to intravarietal heterogeneity.
      • The total number of binucleates and mononucleates with abnormalities was then divided by the total number of cells scored to obtain the frequency of chromosomal instability.
    2. Used in the Beginning of Sentence
      • Total RNA was extracted from 69 fresh endometrium samples collected from 21 healthy female dogs during diestrus, 16 CEH, 15 mucometra and 17 pyometra (eight open and nine closed-cervixes).
      • Total small RNA was recovered at days 1, 10 and 21 of osteogenically induced MSCs.
      • Total RNA was isolated from a monokaryotic cultures of Phanerochaete chrysosporium,Trametes versicolor, and Gloeophyllum trabeum.

Meaning of total for the defined word.

Grammatically, this word "total" is an adjective. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, an intransitive verb and a transitive verb.
  • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
    1. Adjectives
      • Nouns
        • Countable nouns
        • Verbs
          • Intransitive verbs
            • Transitive verbs
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