"detotalize" meaning in English

See detotalize in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: detotalizes [present, singular, third-person], detotalizing [participle, present], detotalized [participle, past], detotalized [past]
Etymology: From de- + totalize. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|de|totalize}} de- + totalize Head templates: {{en-verb}} 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. Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Philosophy, Semiotics Related terms: detotalization

Inflected forms

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