'Quantity' definitions:
Definition of 'quantity'
From: WordNet
noun
How much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify [syn: measure, quantity, amount]
noun
An adequate or large amount; "he had a quantity of ammunition"
noun
The concept that something has a magnitude and can be represented in mathematical expressions by a constant or a variable
Definition of 'Quantity'
From: GCIDE
- Quantity \Quan"ti*ty\, n.; pl. Quantities. [F. quantite, L. quantitas, fr. quantus bow great, how much, akin to quam bow, E. how, who. See Who.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. The attribute of being so much, and not more or less; the property of being measurable, or capable of increase and decrease, multiplication and division; greatness; and more concretely, that which answers the question "How much?"; measure in regard to bulk or amount; determinate or comparative dimensions; measure; amount; bulk; extent; size. Hence, in specific uses: (a) (Logic) The extent or extension of a general conception, that is, the number of species or individuals to which it may be applied; also, its content or comprehension, that is, the number of its constituent qualities, attributes, or relations. (b) (Gram.) The measure of a syllable; that which determines the time in which it is pronounced; as, the long or short quantity of a vowel or syllable. (c) (Mus.) The relative duration of a tone. [1913 Webster]
- 2. That which can be increased, diminished, or measured; especially (Math.), anything to which mathematical processes are applicable. [1913 Webster]
- Note: Quantity is discrete when it is applied to separate objects, as in number; continuous, when the parts are connected, either in succession, as in time, motion, etc., or in extension, as by the dimensions of space, viz., length, breadth, and thickness. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A determinate or estimated amount; a sum or bulk; a certain portion or part; sometimes, a considerable amount; a large portion, bulk, or sum; as, a medicine taken in quantities, that is, in large quantities. [1913 Webster]
- The quantity of extensive and curious information which he had picked up during many months of desultory, but not unprofitable, study. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- Quantity of estate (Law), its time of continuance, or degree of interest, as in fee, for life, or for years. --Wharton (Law Dict. )
- Quantity of matter, in a body, its mass, as determined by its weight, or by its momentum under a given velocity.
- Quantity of motion (Mech.), in a body, the relative amount of its motion, as measured by its momentum, varying as the product of mass and velocity.
- Known quantities (Math.), quantities whose values are given.
- Unknown quantities (Math.), quantities whose values are sought. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'quantity'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- a mass of,
- a world of,
- abundance,
- accent,
- accentuation,
- accommodation,
- account,
- acres,
- affluence,
- aggregate,
- Alexandrine,
- amount,
- amphibrach,
- amphimacer,
- ample sufficiency,
- ampleness,
- amplitude,
- anacrusis,
- anapest,
- antispast,
- armful,
- army,
- arsis,
- avalanche,
- bacchius,
- bagful,
- bags,
- barometer,
- barrelful,
- barrels,
- basketful,
- batch,
- beat,
- bevy,
- binful,
- block,
- bonanza,
- bottleful,
- bountifulness,
- bountiousness,
- bowlful,
- box score,
- budget,
- bulk,
- bumper crop,
- bunch,
- burden,
- bushel,
- cadence,
- caesura,
- canon,
- capacity,
- capful,
- caseful,
- cast,
- catalexis,
- check,
- chloriamb,
- chloriambus,
- chunk,
- clod,
- cloud,
- clump,
- clutch,
- clutter,
- colon,
- content,
- copiousness,
- cordage,
- count,
- counterpoint,
- countlessness,
- covey,
- cretic,
- criterion,
- dactyl,
- dactylic hexameter,
- deal,
- degree,
- diaeresis,
- difference,
- dimeter,
- dipody,
- dochmiac,
- dose,
- elegiac,
- elegiac couplet,
- elegiac pentameter,
- emphasis,
- epitrite,
- extent,
- extravagance,
- exuberance,
- feminine caesura,
- fertility,
- flight,
- flock,
- flocks,
- flood,
- flow,
- foison,
- foot,
- full measure,
- full vowel,
- fullness,
- gauge,
- generosity,
- generousness,
- gob,
- gobs,
- graduated scale,
- great abundance,
- great plenty,
- group,
- gush,
- hail,
- handful,
- heap,
- heptameter,
- heptapody,
- heroic couplet,
- hexameter,
- hexapody,
- hive,
- host,
- hunk,
- iamb,
- iambic,
- iambic pentameter,
- ictus,
- ionic,
- jam,
- jillion,
- jingle,
- kettleful,
- landslide,
- lapful,
- large amount,
- lavishness,
- legion,
- liberality,
- liberalness,
- lilt,
- limit,
- load,
- loads,
- loaf,
- long vowel,
- lot,
- lots,
- lump,
- luxuriance,
- many,
- masculine caesura,
- mass,
- masses of,
- maximum,
- measure,
- mess,
- meter,
- metrical accent,
- metrical foot,
- metrical group,
- metrical unit,
- metron,
- million,
- mob,
- model,
- molossus,
- mora,
- more than enough,
- mountain,
- mouthful,
- movement,
- much,
- muchness,
- multitude,
- myriad,
- myriads,
- nest,
- norm,
- nugget,
- number,
- numbers,
- numerousness,
- ocean,
- oceans,
- oodles,
- opulence,
- opulency,
- outpouring,
- overflow,
- pack,
- paeon,
- parameter,
- parcel,
- part,
- pat,
- pattern,
- peck,
- pentameter,
- pentapody,
- period,
- plenitude,
- plenteousness,
- plentifulness,
- plenty,
- plurality,
- portion,
- poundage,
- prevalence,
- proceleusmatic,
- prodigality,
- product,
- productiveness,
- profuseness,
- profusion,
- pyrrhic,
- quantities,
- quantum,
- quite a few,
- ration,
- reading,
- readout,
- reckoning,
- reduced vowel,
- repleteness,
- repletion,
- rhythm,
- rich harvest,
- rich vein,
- richness,
- riot,
- riotousness,
- room,
- rout,
- ruck,
- rule,
- scads,
- scale,
- score,
- scores,
- sea,
- shoal,
- short vowel,
- shower,
- small amount,
- space,
- spate,
- spondee,
- sprung rhythm,
- standard,
- stowage,
- stream,
- stress,
- substantiality,
- substantialness,
- sum,
- summation,
- superabundance,
- superfluity,
- swarm,
- swing,
- syzygy,
- tale,
- tally,
- teemingness,
- test,
- tetrameter,
- tetrapody,
- tetraseme,
- the bottom line,
- the story,
- the whole story,
- thesis,
- thousand,
- throng,
- tidy sum,
- tonnage,
- tons,
- total,
- touchstone,
- tribrach,
- trillion,
- trimeter,
- tripody,
- triseme,
- trochee,
- type,
- value,
- volume,
- wad,
- wealth,
- weight,
- whole,
- world,
- worlds,
- worlds of,
- x number,
- yardstick
Words containing 'Quantity'
- Quantities,
- Commensurable quantities,
- Compound quantity,
- Concrete quantity,
- Determinate quantities,
- Discrete quantity,
- Exponential quantity,
- Heterogeneous quantities,
- Imaginary quantity,
- Impossible quantity,
- Indeterminate quantity,
- Known quantities,
- Negative quantity,
- Positive quantity,
- Quantity of estate,
- Quantity of matter,
- Quantity of motion,
- Radical quantity,
- Rational quantity,
- Reciprocal quantities,
- Residual quantity,
- Unknown quantities,
- Unlike quantities,
- Variable quantity,
- complex quantity,
- constant quantity,
- definite quantity,
- fundamental quantity,
- in large quantities,
- indefinite quantity,
- numerical quantity,
- parametric quantity,
- prime quantity,
- quantity unit,
- relative quantity,
- unknown quantity,
- Quantities commensurable in power,
- Square root of a quantity,
- large indefinite quantity,
- small indefinite quantity