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The number that ends the argument, for about five minutes.
means The complete amount once everything has been added up — the sum, the whole of it.
from From French total, borrowed from Medieval Latin totalis, built on Latin totus meaning 'whole, entire, all of it.' That same totus is the ancestor of 'total,' 'totality,' and even hides inside 'tot up.' The Latin root had no known deeper origin — it just meant whole, full stop — which is fitting for a word whose entire job is to mean 'everything, added together.'
- etymology
- from Latin totus, meaning whole, entire
- receipt usage
- always bigger than you mentally calculated
- math property
- sum stays same regardless of adding order
- slang sense
- total disaster means complete, not partial, ruin