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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
/ ˈkwɒntɪtɪ /
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
/ kwŏn′tĭ-tē /
- Something, such as a number or symbol that represents a number, on which a mathematical operation is performed.
Usage
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of quantity1
Idioms and Phrases
see unknown quantity .Example Sentences
The Valencia region is part of an agricultural heartland in south-eastern Spain, which exports large quantities of fruit and vegetables to the rest of Europe.
Authorities in neighbouring countries have struggled to cope with the smuggling of huge quantities of pills across their borders.
On the lower end of skills and pay, apparel employment shriveled as Southern California garment makers focused on fashion and small quantities, eliminating tens of thousands of manual labor jobs.
Rights groups have long alleged that large quantities of minerals from legitimate mines, as well as from facilities run by armed groups, are transported to neighbouring Rwanda and end up in our phones and computers.
The experts at UC Davis and North Dakota State University said some of the most vulnerable commodities include pistachios, dairy products, wine and almonds, all of which are exported in large quantities to China.
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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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