subtotaln.
/ˈsʌbˌtəʊtl/, U.S. /ˈsəbˌtoʊdl/ An intermediate or subsidiary total; a total arrived at by adding together part of a group of numbers to be added.
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the world > relative properties > number > enumeration, reckoning, or calculation > [noun] > result, sum > approximately intermediate
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subtotal1863
1863 Chambers's Jrnl. 14 Feb. 110/2 ‘Special missions, outfits, and conveyance’ form a very respectable sub-total under the wider head ‘Civil Contingencies’.
1870 Jrnl. Anthropol. 1 195 Hence, if we deduct these eight affection-monopolists and their offspring from the grand total, we have a sub-total of one hundred and eighty-three mothers with three hundred and sixty-one children.
1906 U.S. Patent 823,474 Fig. 4, showing means for printing marks or characters indicating both totals and subtotals.
1952 D. R. Hartree Numerical Anal. ii. 20 After each contribution is added, a subtotal is taken, then the next contribution is set and added.
1977 New Yorker 29 Aug. 54/2 I kept the new totals in conformity with their figures but changed the supporting details and some subtotals.
2008 G. R. Smith in F. B. Bogui Handbk. Governmental Accounting i. 53 Subtotals for the governmental funds and enterprise funds, respectively, are determined, along with a grand total for both.
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subtotaladj.
/ˌsʌbˈtəʊtl/, U.S. /ˌsəbˈtoʊdl/ Surgery.
Involving the removal of only part of an organ.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > removal by surgical means > [adjective] > involving cutting away > cut away > less than totally
subtotal1899
1899 Med. Press & Circular 25 Oct. 425/2 To this operation they gave the name of sub-total supra-vaginal hysterectomy.
1949 H. W. C. Vines Green's Man. Pathol. (ed. 17) xxxii. 839 It [sc. exophthalmos] has been found to develop after subtotal thyroidectomy and in hypothyroid states.
1961 Lancet 16 Sept. 655/2 There was disagreement..about whether adrenalectomy for patients with hyperplastic or hyperfunctioning glands should be total or subtotal.
2002 Austral. Doctor (Sydney) 1 Nov. 5/3 (headline) Trend to subtotal hysterectomy likely.
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subtotalv.
/ˈsʌbˌtəʊtl/, U.S. /ˈsəbˌtoʊdl/ transitive. To add together or combine (figures) so as to obtain a subtotal; (also) to obtain a subtotal from the contents of (a register, etc.).
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the world > relative properties > number > enumeration, reckoning, or calculation > number, calculate, or reckon [verb (transitive)] > amount to or total
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subtotal1906
1906 W. W. Thompson Book-keeping by Machinery 11 Totalize on an adding machine sheet all its charges against each Branch, sub-divided and sub-totaled in such a way that [etc.].
1936 Suppl. Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 3 95 The contents of any register may be totalled,..or sub-totalled, i.e. printed without clearing the register.
1936 Suppl. Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 3 99 Several prints of the function may be obtained by inserting more non-add steps after position 8, and sub-totalling register 5 on each of these.
1956 G. A. Montgomerie Digital Calculating Machines xii. 250 This causes the accumulator to be sub-totalled into register 117.
2000 E. E. Comiskey & C. W. Mulford Guide Financial Reporting & Anal. iii. 79 The next step is to subtotal the tax-adjusted additions entries.
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