quantities

 [kwon-ti-tee]  

quan·ti·ty

   [kwon-ti-tee]
noun, plural quan·ti·ties.
1.
a particular or indefinite amount of anything: a small quantity of milk; the ocean's vast quantity of fish.
2.
an exact or specified amount or measure: Mix the ingredients in the quantities called for.
3.
a considerable or great amount: to extract ore in quantity.
4.
Mathematics.
a.
the property of magnitude involving comparability with other magnitudes.
b.
something having magnitude, or size, extent, amount, or the like.
c.
magnitude, size, volume, area, or length.
5.
Music. the length or duration of a note.
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6.
Logic. the character of a proposition as singular, universal, particular, or mixed, according to the presence or absence of certain kinds of quantifiers.
7.
that amount, degree, etc., in terms of which another is greater or lesser.
8.
Prosody, Phonetics. the relative duration or length of a sound or a syllable, with respect to the time spent in pronouncing it; length.
9.
Law. the nature of an estate as affected by its duration in time.
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Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English quantite < Old French < Latin quantitās, equivalent to quant(us) how much + -itās -ity
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Quantities is always a great word to know.
So is zedonk. Does it mean:
a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
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quantity   (kwŏn'tĭ-tē)  Pronunciation Key 
Something, such as a number or symbol that represents a number, on which a mathematical operation is performed.
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