detotalize

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

de- +‎ totalize

Verb[edit]

detotalize (third-person singular simple present detotalizes, present participle detotalizing, simple past and past participle detotalized)

  1. (transitive, philosophy, semiotics) To cause (something) no longer to be the total state of things, by means of adding something further that is not a part of it; to make incomplete by addition.

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