sumtotal

English

Noun

sumtotal (plural sumtotals)

1. Alternative form of sum total
   1. Total.
      • 1963, Satyendra Nath Sen, Sisir Kumar Das, Money, Trade and Public Finance, page 91:

        Disposable income is the sumtotal of money incomes that remain at the disposal of individuals.

      • 1975, Proceedings: Eleventh International Mineral Processing Congress:

        The metallurgical and economic indices subsystem is intended for operative presentation (at the shift and day end) of sumtotal indices of teams, sections and plants operation, as well as that of the concentrator as a whole, to the plants and concentrator management.

      • 2012, Alice A. Bailey, Djwhal Khul, A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, →ISBN, page 300:

        These periods have been computed by the Hindu students and are the sumtotal of time as we understand it or the duration of a solar system.

   2. Entirety.
      • 1970, Swami Satyananda, World Philosophy: Epistemology, page 106:

        An object according to him, is the sumtotal of the appearances presented by it at all places at a given moment, and a mind is the sumtotal of all appearances presented at a place at which at a given moment there are brain and sense organs

      • 1971, Ke Rāghavan Piḷḷa, The Vākyapadīya: Studies in the Vākyapadīya - Volume 1, page xxxii:

        According to the Grammarian philosopher, words present a specific meaning of the sentence. These words themselves are not meaningful in the sense that the sumtotal of the meanings of the words will constitute the meaning of the sentence.

      • 1997, Satkari Mookerjee, The Buddhist Philosophy of Universal Flux, →ISBN, page 141:

        A cognition has got to be perceived in its turn like other objects and this cogniser must be the 'self,' that cognises the different cognitions which from the sumtotal of our life experience.

      • 2003, K.N. Prasad, Indian Economy, →ISBN, page 1030:

        Employment is considered the key to self-esteem, for income is not the sumtotal of human life.

   3. Epitome.
      • 1971, Alice A. Bailey, Ponder on this, →ISBN:

        Just what this thoughtform is, few people know, but their definition includes the idea of a huge elemental form which bars the way to the sacred portal, or the idea of a fabricated form, constructed sometimes by the disciple's Master to test his sincerity. Some regard it as the sumtotal of a man's faults, his evil nature, which hinders his being recognised as fit to tread the Path of Holiness.

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