{
  "id": "total.quantity",
  "term": "total",
  "sense": "quantity",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 7,
  "arena": "total",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "the number of all parts",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "part.relation",
      "number.quantity"
    ],
    "interaction": "the parts are added together to make the number",
    "novel_properties": [
      "completeness",
      "no missing part"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station has 158 solar array wings, totaling 25,000 square feet of active surface.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Walmart reported 2.3 million employees worldwide in its 2023 annual filing.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The human body contains about 30 trillion human cells, not counting microbes.",
      "domain": "biology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [
    "autonomy.self-governed",
    "enough.sufficient",
    "nature.ordinary",
    "overall.general"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "total",
    "totaled",
    "totaling",
    "totals"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-total.quantity"
}