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Total (group)

Total, an American R&B girl group of Kima Raynor, Keisha Spivey, and Pam Long, formed 1994 in New Jersey on Bad Boy Records; hits include "Can't You See" and "Trippin'." Not the British noise project Total or Russian rock band Total.

Total abdominal hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy

Total abdominal hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy (TAH-BSO) is an open surgical procedure removing the uterus, cervix, both ovaries, and both fallopian tubes, usually for fibroids or cancer.

Total Access Communication System

Total Access Communication System (TACS) was an analog cellular standard derived from the American AMPS system, launched in the United Kingdom in 1985 for Vodafone and Cellnet.

Total addressable market

Total addressable market (TAM), also called market sizing, is the total annual revenue available to a product if it won every customer with the problem it solves, a ceiling rather than a forecast.

Total anomalous pulmonary venous connection

Total anomalous pulmonary venous connection (TAPVC, TAPVR): congenital defect where all pulmonary veins drain to the right heart instead of the left atrium; supracardiac, cardiac, infracardiac, mixed types; needs infant surgery; survival ~85% at 20 years.

Total Bellas

Total Bellas, E! reality series (2016–2021, six seasons), spinoff of Total Divas following WWE twins Nikki and Brie Bella with John Cena and Daniel Bryan; season 3 drew nearly 1 million viewers per episode, E!'s #2 show.

Total Blocking Time

Total Blocking Time (TBT) is a lab-based web performance metric that sums the time after First Contentful Paint during which a page's main thread blocks user input.

Total body irradiation

Total body irradiation (TBI) is a radiotherapy technique delivering radiation to the entire body, used mainly to condition patients before stem cell transplantation for blood cancers like leukemia.

Total Chess World Championship 2026

Total Chess World Championship 2026: FIDE-approved pilot in Budapest, 10–20 November 2026, run by Norway Chess; 24 players including Gukesh, Carlsen, and Sindarov compete in Fast Classic, Rapid, and Blitz for the FIDE World Combined Champion title.

Total Chess World Championship Tour

Total Chess World Championship Tour: annual FIDE-approved chess series by Norway Chess combining Fast Classic, Rapid, and Blitz to crown the FIDE World Combined Champion; pilot in Budapest, November 2026, full tour from March 2027.

Total Christian Television

Total Christian Television (TCT), founded 1977 as Tri-State Christian Television by Garth and Tina Coonce, is a 24-hour Christian TV network run by not-for-profit TCT Ministries of Marion, Illinois; a former TBN affiliate that split off in 2006.

Total colectomy

Total colectomy is an operation that removes the entire colon from cecum to sigmoid, leaving the rectum in place, performed electively for inflammatory bowel disease or emergently for toxic megacolon.

Total Communication Methods

Total Communication (TC) is a deaf education philosophy using all communication modes: speech, sign, fingerspelling, gesture, lipreading, amplification. Developed by Roy Holcomb in the 1960s, it became dominant but is criticized for incomplete language access.

Total conversation

Total Conversation is an audiovisual service defined in ITU-T F.703 that combines real-time video, voice, and character-by-character text in one call, underpinning relay and emergency services for deaf users.

Total correlation spectroscopy

Total correlation spectroscopy, also known as the homonuclear Hartmann–Hahn experiment (HOHAHA), is a two-dimensional NMR experiment that relays magnetization along coupled proton chains, used for peptides, proteins, and sugars.

Total cost

Total cost is the total expenditure a firm incurs to produce a given level of output, written as the sum of total fixed cost and total variable cost.

Total cost of ownership

Total cost of ownership (TCO), also called cost of ownership or total cost of operation, is a purchasing concept estimating an asset's full lifetime costs beyond its purchase price.

Total depravity

Total depravity, also known as total inability, is the Reformed doctrine that sin corrupted every part of human nature, leaving people unable to turn to God without grace.

Total derivative

The total derivative is the derivative of a multivariable function taken as a whole, a linear map giving the best linear approximation to its change near a point.

Total design

Total design is an engineering design methodology developed by Stuart Pugh, professor of design at the University of Strathclyde, and set out in his 1990 book Total Design.

Total Dhamaal

Total Dhamaal (टोटल धमाल), also called Dhamaal 3, is a 2019 Hindi adventure comedy directed by Indra Kumar, the third Dhamaal film, starring Ajay Devgn, Anil Kapoor, and Madhuri Dixit; a critical flop but box-office hit with ₹154 crore India net.

Total disc replacement

Total disc replacement, also called disc arthroplasty, is a surgical procedure that replaces a damaged spinal disc with an artificial implant that preserves motion, an alternative to spinal fusion.

Total dissolved solids

Total dissolved solids (TDS) is the mass of dissolved salts and organic matter in water, reported in mg/L as a measure of how mineralized the water is.

Total Divas

Total Divas, E! reality series (2013-2019, nine seasons) produced with WWE and Bunim-Murray following WWE Divas such as the Bella Twins and Natalya; spawned Total Bellas and fueled WWE's Women's Revolution.

Total Drama

Total Drama is a Canadian animated reality-TV parody franchise created by Tom McGillis and Jennifer Pertsch for Fresh TV, first aired in 2007 with Total Drama Island on Teletoon, spanning mainline seasons, The Ridonculous Race, Total Dramarama, and a 2023 reboot.

Total Drama Action

Total Drama Action is season 2 of the Canadian animated reality-show parody Total Drama: 14 returning campers (plus one late joiner) compete in movie-genre challenges on an abandoned Toronto film lot for $1 million, hosted by Chris McLean.

Total Drama All-Stars and Pahkitew Island

Total Drama All-Stars and Total Drama: Pahkitew Island are the two 13-episode halves of the fifth season of the Canadian animated series Total Drama, aired in 2013 and 2014.

Total Drama Island

Total Drama Island (2007) is a Canadian animated parody of reality elimination shows by Tom McGillis and Jennifer Pertsch for Teletoon: 22 teens at Camp Wawanakwa compete for $100,000; originally Camp TV, it launched the Total Drama franchise.

Total Drama Island (2023)

Total Drama Island (2023) is a 13-episode Canadian animated reality-show parody revival by Fresh TV, the first half of a two-season reboot set 15 years after the 2007 original, with 16 new campers competing for $1,000,000; it premiered in Italy April 10, 2023, with Terry McGurrin as Chris McLean.

Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race

Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race is the first Total Drama spin-off, a 2015 animated parody of The Amazing Race in which 18 teams of two race worldwide for C$1 million, hosted by Don, with automatic Chill Zone eliminations across 26 episodes.