Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The quality or state of being total.
- noun An aggregate amount; a sum.
- noun The phase of an eclipse when it is total.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or character of being a total; entirety.
- noun That which is total; a whole; an aggregate.
- noun In astronomy, the period during which an eclipse is total; the time of total obscuration.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being total.
- noun The whole sum; the whole quantity or amount; the entirety.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the state of being
total - noun an
aggregate quantity obtained byaddition - noun astronomy the
phase of aneclipse when it is total
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the whole amount
- noun the state of being total and complete
- noun the quality of being complete and indiscriminate
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Examples
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What this means in totality is that he has to think strategically before barging into a battle, otherwise he could get killed.
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Culture, and the harmonious perfection of our whole being, and what we call totality, then become secondary matters; and the institutions, which should develope these, take the same narrow and partial view of humanity and its wants as the free religious communities take.
Culture and Anarchy Matthew Arnold 1855
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The plethora of mediocre, bad, and atrocious charter schools speaks to this, as does the fact that, in totality, charters actually underperform their traditional counterparts.
Paras Bhayani: Waiting for a Fair Shake: The One Sidedness of 'Waiting for Superman' Paras Bhayani 2010
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Is it thither that the human drift in all its totality is trending?
THE HUMAN DRIFT 2010
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I've compiled a list below, and the totality is striking.
Rove, Chamber ads widely debunked as false or misleading Greg Sargent 2010
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The plethora of mediocre, bad, and atrocious charter schools speaks to this, as does the fact that, in totality, charters actually underperform their traditional counterparts.
Paras Bhayani: Waiting for a Fair Shake: The One Sidedness of 'Waiting for Superman' Paras Bhayani 2010
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"We had some windows where the market was strong and some where it was dormant, but in totality, the quality and breadth were quite encouraging."
Wall Street Rides Wave of Stock, Bond Rallies Aaron Lucchetti 2010
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We haven't made up our minds in totality yet ... but still, this hit home.
We Are Four 2008
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Parts of it will be true and some of it will be only as I conceive it, but in totality it will make the final statement about the Venus program and about myself.
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(Mind you, not in totality, but I think you get the gist of what I mean.)
moon 2008
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