totalizer

Machine that tallies

A totalizer is a device that calculates and displays running totals.

The term appears most often in horse racing, where the totalizer (or tote board) shows betting pools and odds in real time.

More broadly, any mechanism that aggregates quantities—a gas pump's meter, an odometer—functions as a totalizer.

Also spelled totalisator.

parimutuel

betting

Staking money on outcomes

  • wagerStake on uncertainty
  • racetrackCourse for competitive speed
  • oddsLikelihood expressed numerically

payout · dividend · stakes · handicap · accumulator · bookmaker · gambler · jackpot · trifecta · quinella

aggregation

summation

Adding to find total

synthesis · integration · combination · consolidation · compilation · cumulative · sigma · tally · tabulation · reckoning

measurement

gauge

Standard of measurement

sensors · readout · calibration · precision · indicators · analog · digital · transducer · display · monitoring

Opposites
aggregation vs. itemization

totalizeritemizer

One who lists separately

separator · differentiator · splitter · segregator · sorter

accumulation vs. distribution

totalizerdivider

Thing that partitions

distributor · allocator · disperser · subtractor · splitter

Family

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