克劳塞维茨，卡尔·冯1780－1831普鲁士军官和军事理论家，提出了总体战概念和战争是政治的工具。其论著战争论在其死后出版（1833年） Prussian army officer and military theorist who proposed the doctrines of total war and war as an instrument of policy. His treatise On War was published posthumously(1833).
在统计学中，从一个总体获取样品。 In statistics, obtaining a sample from a population.