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quantity
[ kwon-ti-tee ]
noun
- a particular or indefinite amount of anything:
a small quantity of milk;
the ocean's vast quantity of fish.
- an exact or specified amount or measure:
Mix the ingredients in the quantities called for.
- a considerable or great amount:
to extract ore in quantity.
- Mathematics.
- the property of magnitude involving comparability with other magnitudes.
- something having magnitude, or size, extent, amount, or the like.
- magnitude, size, volume, area, or length.
- Music. the length or duration of a note.
- Logic. the character of a proposition as singular, universal, particular, or mixed, according to the presence or absence of certain kinds of quantifiers.
- that amount, degree, etc., in terms of which another is greater or lesser.
- Prosody, Phonetics. the relative duration or length of a sound or a syllable, with respect to the time spent in pronouncing it; length.
- Law. the nature of an estate as affected by its duration in time.
quantity
/ ˈɒԳɪɪ /
noun
- a specified or definite amount, weight, number, etc
- ( as modifier )
a quantity estimate
- the aspect or property of anything that can be measured, weighed, counted, etc
- a large or considerable amount
- maths an entity having a magnitude that may be denoted by a numerical expression
- physics a specified magnitude or amount; the product of a number and a unit
- logic the characteristic of a proposition dependent on whether it is a universal or particular statement, considering all or only part of a class
- prosody the relative duration of a syllable or the vowel in it
quantity
/ ŏ′ĭ-ŧ /
- Something, such as a number or symbol that represents a number, on which a mathematical operation is performed.
Usage
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of quantity1
Idioms and Phrases
see unknown quantity .Example Sentences
"I'm concerned that if some people can't swallow because of their disease process, and if they're not able to take the entire quantity of medication because of breathing difficulties or swallowing difficulties, what will happen?"
A man has been charged with 64 offences after a major investigation into a funeral directors in Hull in which police removed 35 bodies and a quantity of ashes.
“I just don’t really think that there’s a way of effectively banning a substance when that substance exists in such massive quantities within perfectly valid industrial uses. Diversion is just too easy.”
He says he was amazed by the "sheer quantity of documents" he found that had been stolen by Prof Macmillan.
It does this by learning from vast quantities of existing data such as online text and images.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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