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totalizing

totalizing

7.0
Adding separate amounts to show the total
  • adjective
  • /ˈtoʊtəlˌaɪzɪŋ/
  • US
translation icon : totalizador
  • Her totalizing analysis of the data highlighted the overall trends while blending the individual findings.

Examples

  • The report provides a totalizing view of the company's financial performance over the year.

  • A totalizing approach in education seeks to integrate all subjects into a cohesive curriculum.

  • Are you're praising a kind of total totalizing performance.

  • That's all part of this, this big, you know, totalizing parish life that they're, they're referring to.

Synonyms

combinative
vstotalizing
1 8.1

Relating to joining things to make something new

focuses on making a single overall amount from separate parts
summative
vstotalizing
  • Specialized
1 6.3

Showing the final level of learning or achievement

aims to combine separate parts into one measurable numerical amount
summational
vstotalizing
8.4

Relating to adding things together

serves to join separate amounts into one overall value

How Combined

totalizing
  • US
7.0
combined
1.5
grouped
2.0
separate
829 2.1

Surface Forms

totalizing positive
totaliser positive

Morphology

totalizing = totalize (transparent) = totalize + ing

A straightforward present-participle/adjectival use of the verb 'totalize' indicating the act or process of combining amounts.

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.