sum total
sum total noun: total; the result of adding a set of figures or counting a number of items.
Noun
sum total (plural sum totals)
- Total; the result of adding a set of figures or counting a number of items.
- It may be noted that the maximum number and sum total in points of the table may be changed to the second mode simply by multiplying them by two.1890, The British Chess Magazine - Volume 10, page 494
- This column should contain the remainder after deducting the amounts for each town or ward in column 5 from those in column 4, observed that the sum total of column 5, when deducted from the sum total of column 4, is equal to the sum total of column 6.1896, New York (N.Y.) Board of Aldermen, Proceedings of the Board of Aldermen - Volume 220, page 148
- Synonyms:
- aggregate
- Entirety; the aggregate of everything.
- The sum total of my belongings is the clothes in my knapsack.
- A very wise person once told me that I was “greater than the sum total of everything that has happened, is happening, or will ever happen” in my life.2014, DC Doyle, Greater Than The Sum Total: A Novel, →ISBN
- Epitome.
- Moreover, by and by the Church will come "out of the tribulation, the great one," the sum total of all tribulations.1998, William Hendriksen, More Than Conquerors: An Interpretation of the Book of Revelation, →ISBN
- He is the sum total of all vice and that woman is the abode of all virtue; that wicked man is fire incarnate; she is cool like snow.2006, Phyllis Granoff, The Forest of Thieves and the Magic Garden, →ISBN
sum total meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Kannada and Punjabi
sum total in Tamil
- அறுவு, கூட்டு மொத்தம், ஆகப்பாடு
sum total in Urdu
- حاصل جمع
sum total in Kannada
- ಪೂರ್ತಿ ಮೊತ್ತ, ಒಟ್ಟಾರೆ, ಒಟ್ಟು ಮೊತ್ತ
sum total in Punjabi
- sum total
- ਕੁੱਲ kulla
Examples of sum total in a sentence
- The sum total does not match current genebank holdings (1,238,000) as this table only covers those accessions properly described and reported to IBPGR as of 1991.2013, Renee Vellve, Saving the Seed: Genetic diversity and European agriculture, →ISBN:
- That was the sum total of information that was transferred in exchange for tuition paid.2002, Paul Benedetti, Wayne MacPhail, Spin Doctors: The Chiropractic Industry Under Examination, →ISBN, page 36:
- Consider this definition of disease (to go back a step) from a medical dictionary: “A specific entity which is the sum total of the numerous expressions of one or more pathological processes.2004, Eric J. Cassell, The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine, →ISBN, page 98:
Synonyms of sum total
Forms of sum total
| plural | sum totals |
|---|---|
| alternative form | sum-total |
| alternative form | sumtotal |
Questions about sum total
- What does sum total mean?
- Sum total means total; the result of adding a set of figures or counting a number of items.
- What is sum total in Tamil?
- Sum total in Tamil is அறுவு, கூட்டு மொத்தம், ஆகப்பாடு. See Sum total meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use sum total in a sentence?
- The sum total does not match current genebank holdings (1,238,000) as this table only covers those accessions properly described and reported to IBPGR as of 1991.
- What part of speech is sum total?
- Sum total is a noun.
- What is the plural of sum total?
- The plural of sum total is sum totals.
Words near sum total in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: sum total (page history and authors); sum total (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sum total (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sum total (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਕੁੱਲ (Punjabi) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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