Quantity

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: quan=ti=ty

CIDE DICTIONARY

Quantity, n. [F. quantite, L. quantitas, fr. quantus bow great, how much, akin to quam bow, E. how, who. See Who.].

•  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.  [1913 Webster]
•  That which can be increased, diminished, or measured; especially (Math.), anything to which mathematical processes are applicable.  [1913 Webster]

  " 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]
•  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."  [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.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Quantity, n. (pl. -ies)
1 the property of things that is measurable.
2 the size or extent or weight or amount or number.
3 a specified or considerable portion or number or amount (buys in quantity; the quantity of heat in a body).
4 (in pl.) large amounts or numbers; an abundance (quantities of food; is found in quantities on the shore).
5 the length or shortness of vowel sounds or syllables.
6 Math. a a value, component, etc. that may be expressed in numbers. b the figure or symbol representing this.

Idiom

quantity mark a mark put over a vowel etc. to indicate its length. quantity surveyor a person who measures and prices building work. quantity theory the hypothesis that prices correspond to changes in the monetary supply.

Etymology

ME f. OF quantit{eacute} f. L quantitas -tatis f. quantus how much

THESAURUS

Quantity

Alexandrine, a mass of, a world of, abundance, accent, accentuation, accommodation, account, acres, affluence, aggregate, 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

ROGET THESAURUS

Quantity

Quantity

N quantity, magnitude, size, amplitude, magnitude, mass, amount, sum, quantum, measure, substance, strength, force, mathematics, mathesis, category, general conception, universal predicament, armful, handful, mouthful, spoonful, capful, stock, batch, lot, dose, yaffle, quantitative, some, any, aught, more or less, a few, to the tune of, all of, a full, the sum of, fully, exactly, precisely.

Greatness

N greatness, magnitude, size, multitude, immensity, enormity, infinity, might, strength, intensity, fullness, importance, great quantity, quantity, deal, power, sight, pot, volume, world, mass, heap, stock, peck, bushel, load, cargo, cartload, wagonload, shipload, flood, spring tide, abundance, principal part, chief part, main part, greater part, major part, best part, essential part, bulk, mass, great, greater, large, considerable, fair, above par, big, huge, Herculean, cyclopean, ample, abundant, full, intense, strong, sound, passing, heavy, plenary, deep, high, signal, at its height, in the zenith, world-wide, widespread, far-famed, extensive, wholesale, many, goodly, noble, precious, mighty, sad, grave, heavy, serious, far gone, arrant, downright, utter, uttermost, crass, gross, arch, profound, intense, consummate, rank, uninitiated, red-hot, desperate, glaring, flagrant, stark staring, thorough-paced, thoroughgoing, roaring, thumping, extraordinary, important, unsurpassed, complete, august, grand, dignified, sublime, majestic, vast, immense, enormous, extreme, inordinate, excessive, extravagant, exorbitant, outrageous, preposterous, unconscionable, swinging, monstrous, overgrown, towering, stupendous, prodigious, astonishing, incredible, marvelous, unlimited, unapproachable, unutterable, indescribable, ineffable, unspeakable, inexpressible, beyond expression, fabulous, undiminished, unabated, unreduced, unrestricted, absolute, positive, stark, decided, unequivocal, essential, perfect, finished, remarkable, of mark, marked, pointed, veriest, noteworthy, renowned, truly, decidedly, unequivocally, purely, absolutely, seriously, essentially, fundamentally, radically, downright, in all conscience, for the most part, in the main, entirely, abundantly, widely, far and wide, greatly, much, muckle, well, indeed, very, very much, a deal, no end of, most, not a little, pretty, pretty well, enough, in a great measure, richly, to a large extent, to a great extent, to a gigantic extent, on a large scale, so, never so, ever so, ever so dole, scrap, shred, tag, splinter, rag, much, by wholesale, mighty, powerfully, with a witness, ultra, in the extreme, extremely, exceedingly, intensely, exquisitely, acutely, indefinitely, immeasurably, beyond compare, beyond comparison, beyond measure, beyond all bounds, incalculably, infinitely, preeminently, superlatively, immoderately, monstrously, preposterously, inordinately, exorbitantly, excessively, enormously, out of all proportion, with a vengeance, particularly, remarkably, singularly, curiously, uncommonly, unusually, peculiarly, notably, signally, strikingly, pointedly, mainly, chiefly, famously, egregiously, prominently, glaringly, emphatically, kat exochin, strangely, wonderfully, amazingly, surprisingly, astonishingly, incredibly, marvelously, awfully, stupendously, peculiarly, furiously, severely, desperately, tremendously, extravagantly, confoundedly, deucedly, devilishly, with a vengeance, a outrance, a toute outrance, painfully, sadly, grossly, sorely, bitterly, piteously, grievously, miserably, cruelly, woefully, lamentably, shockingly, frightfully, dreadfully, fearfully, terribly, horribly, a maximis ad minima, greatness knows itself, mightiest powers by deepest calms are fed, minimum decet libere cui multum licet, some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

Assemblage

N assemblage, collection, collocation, colligation, compilation, levy, gathering, ingathering, muster, attroupement, team, concourse, conflux, congregation, contesseration, convergence, meeting, levee, reunion, drawing room, at home, conversazione, assembly, congress, convention, conventicle, gemote, conclave, posse, posse comitatus, Noah's ark, miscellany, collectanea, museum, menagerie, museology, crowd, throng, group, flood, rush, deluge, rabble, mob, press, crush, cohue, horde, body, tribe, crew, gang, knot, squad, band, party, swarm, shoal, school, covey, flock, herd, drove, atajo, bunch, drive, force, mulada, remuda, roundup, array, bevy, galaxy, corps, company, troop, troupe, task force, army, regiment, host, populousness, clan, brotherhood, fraternity, sorority, association, volley, shower, storm, cloud, group, cluster, Pleiades, clump, pencil, set, batch, lot, pack, budget, assortment, bunch, parcel, packet, package, bundle, fascine, fasces, bale, seron, seroon, fagot, wisp, truss, tuft, shock, rick, fardel, stack, sheaf, haycock, fascicle, fascicule, fasciculus, gavel, hattock, stook, accumulation, congeries, heap, lump, pile, rouleau, tissue, mass, pyramid, bing, drift, snowball, snowdrift, acervation, cumulation, glomeration, agglomeration, conglobation, conglomeration, conglomerate, coacervate, coacervation, coagmentation, aggregation, concentration, congestion, omnium gaterum, spicilegium, black hole of Calcutta, quantity, collector, gatherer, whip, whipper in, assembled, closely packed, dense, serried, crowded to suffocation, teeming, swarming, populous, as thick as hops, all of a heap, fasciculated cumulative, the plot thickens, acervatim, tibi seris tibi metis.