totalizing
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7.0
Adding separate amounts to show the total
- adjective
- /ˈtoʊtəlˌaɪzɪŋ/
- US
:
totalizador
- Her totalizing analysis of the data highlighted the overall trends while blending the individual findings.
Examples
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The report provides a totalizing view of the company's financial performance over the year.
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A totalizing approach in education seeks to integrate all subjects into a cohesive curriculum.
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Are you're praising a kind of total totalizing performance.
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That's all part of this, this big, you know, totalizing parish life that they're, they're referring to.
Synonyms
1
6.3
Showing the final level of learning or achievement
aims to combine separate parts into one measurable numerical amount
combinative
vstotalizing
1
8.1
Relating to joining things to make something new
focuses on making a single overall amount from separate parts
summational
vstotalizing
8.4
Relating to adding things together
serves to join separate amounts into one overall value
How Combined
Surface Forms
totalizing positive
totaliser positive
Morphology
Etymology
The word totalizing comes from total, which means 'sum' or 'whole', and the part -ize, which means 'to make', so it literally means 'making a total'. That's why a totalizing function or meter puts separate amounts together to show one final sum.