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quantity

[ kwon-ti-tee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, plural quan·ti·ties.

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.
1. the property of magnitude involving comparability with other magnitudes.
2. something having magnitude, or size, extent, amount, or the like.
3. 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 /

1. a specified or definite amount, weight, number, etc
2. ( 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.

The use of a plural noun after quantity of as in a large quantity of bananas was formerly considered incorrect, but is now acceptable

First recorded in 1250–1300; Middle English quantite, from Old French, from Latin quantitās, from quant(us) “how much” + -itās -ity

C14: from Old French quantité, from Latin quantitās extent, amount, from quantus how much

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