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totals

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for totals.

Editorial note

Everyone else will be looking for the highest point totals, gained from criteria that are better predictors.

Examples16
Definitions4
Parts of speech2

Quick take

An amount obtained by the addition of smaller amounts.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of totals gathered in one view.

noun

An amount obtained by the addition of smaller amounts.

verb

To equal a total of; to amount to.

noun

(informal, mathematics) Sum.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for totals.

noun

An amount obtained by the addition of smaller amounts.

verb

To equal a total of; to amount to.

noun

(informal, mathematics) Sum.

verb

(transitive) To add up; to calculate the sum of.

Example sentences

1

Everyone else will be looking for the highest point totals, gained from criteria that are better predictors.

2

The Music department in particular often gave prospective students scholarships of up to 90% of fee totals.

3

It totals to about 4 windows, and about 100-200 tabs total depending on how busy i am any given day.

4

No, that's 50% of the federal prison population (notice how the totals add up).

5

There's other noise in the totals besides just doubling pointer size, though - padding in C structs due to pointer alignment, for example.

6

Imagine the daily cumulative totals of various chemicals consumed.

7

On average the totals would still be the same.

8

There are a couple of banking startups (at least here in the UK) that want to give you API-like access to key stats (transactions, totals) without full access.

9

When you look at just the miles driven in June (by comparing the totals with those in the May report), more than two-thirds were driven autonomous this month.

10

All urban water consumption totals 9 million acre-feet.

11

If I remember correctly, other entries also lost ~30 from their totals.

12

I should build a real tool that robustly and respectfully logs daily post totals for more locales, and maybe build out a cool little graph portal.

Quote examples

1

How about an acronym, like "thips", totals hours in persons.

2

Even if your lump of gold has just 100 atoms, each with a quantum “spin” that can be either up or down, the total number of possible states totals 2[^]100, or a million trillion trillion.

3

You could send out random teams ("Your team for tonight is x, y and z!") with an adjusted under/over (for stats, totals, etc) and then give people the option to double-or-nothing with a bet, or whatever.

4

"While a meal generally costs upward of $50 at Silicon Valley-area restaurants, a week’s worth of Soylent or Schmoylent totals $85." I get it, Soylent can save you money on food, but this comically excessive exaggeration isn't helping make that point.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use totals in a sentence?

Everyone else will be looking for the highest point totals, gained from criteria that are better predictors.

What does totals mean?

An amount obtained by the addition of smaller amounts.

What part of speech is totals?

totals is commonly used as noun, verb.