adding (up)

verb

present participle of add (up)
as in totaling

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  1. totaling
  2. computing
  3. counting
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  • The dual-threat Dart delivered an encouraging rookie year, totaling 24 touchdowns in 14 games (12 starts).
    — Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 6 Sep. 2026
  • While nearly every Florida county has some form of a tax on hotel stays — totaling more than $1 billion statewide — the largest pool is in Orange County, where millions visit for theme park vacations and business conventions annually.
    — Ryan Gillespie, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 Sep. 2026
Definition of totaling
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  • The turbines are there because SpaceXAI needs an enormous amount of electricity for Colossus 2, one of the country’s densest concentrations of computing power, where the company is training Grok, its chatbot.
    — Austyn Gaffney, Scientific American, 9 Sep. 2026
  • EuroHPC is overseeing the implementation of 19 AI Factories and 13 AI Factory Antennas across Europe, while also developing a European quantum-computing infrastructure that will integrate quantum technologies with conventional supercomputers.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of computing
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  • By Childs’s count, Tuesday’s release patches 972 vulnerabilities, and 997 when counting the porting of fixes for the Chromium browser incorporated into Edge.
    — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 8 Sep. 2026
  • But for thousands who still mourn, especially in the New York region on the 25th anniversary, such fundamental concerns about identifying the victims, counting the dead and finding the culprits is the equivalent of an open wound.
    — Mike Kelly, USA Today, 7 Sep. 2026
Definition of counting
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