Equity vs Total - What's the difference?
equity | total |
value of some business.
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* Macaulay
(legal) of property minus liens or other (l).
(legal) An equitable claim; an equity of redemption.
* Kent
(accounting) Ownership interest in a company as determined by subtracting liabilities from (l).
Justice, impartiality or fairness.
* Tillotson
An amount obtained by the addition of smaller amounts.
(informal, mathematics) Sum.
Entire; relating to the whole of something.
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, title= ((used as an intensifier)) Complete; absolute.
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To add up; to calculate the sum of.
To equal a total of; to amount to.
(transitive, US, slang) to demolish; to wreck completely. (from total loss)
To amount to; to add up to.
As nouns the difference between equity and total
is that equity is value of some business while total is an amount obtained by the addition of smaller amounts.As an adjective total is
entire; relating to the whole of something.As a verb total is
to add up; to calculate the sum of.equity
English
(wikipedia equity)Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
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- Equity had been gradually shaping itself into a refined science which no human faculties could master without long and intense application.
- an equity''' to a settlement, or wife's '''equity , etc.
- I consider the wife's equity to be too well settled to be shaken.
- Christianity secures both the private interests of men and the public peace, enforcing all justice and equity .
References
*total
English
Alternative forms
* totall (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- A total of £145 was raised by the bring-and-buy stall.
- The total of 4, 5 and 6 is 15.
See also
* addition, summation: (augend) + (addend) = (summand) + (summand) = (sum, total) * subtraction: (minuend) ? (subtrahend) = (difference) * multiplication: (multiplier) × (multiplicand) = (factor) × (factor) = (product) * division: (dividend) ÷ (divisor) = (quotient), remainder left over if divisor does not divide dividendSynonyms
* (sum) sumDerived terms
* subtotalAdjective
(en adjective)Boundary problems, passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.}}
Synonyms
* (entire) entire, full, whole * (complete) absolute, complete, utter; see alsoDerived terms
* total warVerb
- When we totalled the takings, we always got a different figure.
- That totals seven times so far.
- Honey, I’m OK, but I’ve totaled the car.
- It totals nearly a pound.