totem

n. sacred emblem, representation of sacred object revered by clans and tribes

Total Cross Section, Elastic Scattering and Diffraction Dissociation (TOTEM) is one of the six detector experiments being constructed at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland. It shares intersection point I5 with the Compact Muon Solenoid. The detector will be used to measure total cross section, elastic scattering and diffractive processes.
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This article is about totemism. For the media player, see Totem (media player). For Canadian loudspeaker manufacturer, see Totem Acoustic. For the upcoming Video Game see Totem (video game)A totem is any entity which watches over or assists a group of people, such as a family, clan or tribe (Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary [1] and Webster's New World College Dictionary, Fourth Edition).Totems support larger groups than the individual person. In kinship and descent, if the apical ancestor of a clan is nonhuman, it is called a totem. Normally this belief is accompanied by a totemic myth.
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Tótem was an Uruguayan Rock band formed in the early 1970s.
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Noun
1. a clan identified by their kinship to a common totemic object
(hypernym) kin, kin group, kinship group, kindred, clan, tribe
2. emblem consisting of an object such as an animal or plant; serves as the symbol of a family or clan (especially among American Indians)
(hypernym) emblem
(classification) United States, United States of America, America, US, U.S., USA, U.S.A.

n. totem, sacred emblem, representation of sacred object revered by clans and tribes

adj. dead, not living

n. totem, sacred emblem, representation of sacred object revered by clans and tribes