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Quantity
QUAN'TITY, n. [L. quantitas, from quantus, how much, or as much as.]
1. That property of any thing which may be increased or diminished.
This definition is defective, and as applicable to many other properties as to quantity. A definition strictly philosophical cannot be given. In common usage, quantity is a mass or collection of matter of indeterminate dimensions, but consisting of particles which cannot be distinguished, or which are not customarily distinguished, or which are considered in the aggregate. Thus we say, a quantity of earth, a quantity of water, a quantity of air, of light, of heat, of iron, of wood, of timber, of corn, of paper. But we do not say, a quantity of men, or of horses, or of houses; for as these are considered as separate individuals or beings, we call an assemblage of them, a number of multitude.
2. An indefinite extent of space.
3. A portion or part.
If I were sawed into quantities. [Not in use.]
4. a large portion; as a medicine taken in quantities, that is, in large quantities.
5. In mathematics, any thing which can be multiplied, divided or measured.
Thus mathematics is called the science of quantity. In algebra, quantities are known and unknown. Known quantities are usually represented by the first letters of the alphabet, as a, b, c, and unknown quantities are expressed by the last letters, x, y, z, etc. Letters thus used to represent quantities are themselves called quantities. A simple quantity is expressed by one term, as + a, or - abc; a compound is expressed by more terms than one, connected by the signs, + plus, or -minus, as a + b, or a - b + c. quantities which have the sign + prefixed, are called positive or affirmative; those which have the sign - prefixed are called negative.
6. In grammar, the measure of a sullable; that which determines the time in which it is pronounced.
7. In logic, a category, universal, or predicament; a general conception.
8. In music, the relative duration of a note or syllable.
Quantity of matter, in a body, is the measure arising from the joint consideration of its magnitude and density.
Quantity of motion, in a body, is the measure arising from the joint consideration of its quantity of matter and its velocity.
quantity appears in definitions for these words:
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Abound About Above Abridge Absolute Abstinence Abstract Abundance Abundant Accumulate Accumulated Ace Acre Action Ad Adfected Again Agrarian Aker Ale-taster Algebra Aliquot Alkalimeter All Alligation Allowance Aloes Alum Amass Amassed Amassing Amassment Ana Angle Any Application Approximation Assay Assayer Assign Assortment Atmometer Attraction Augment Avenage Average Baftas Baking Balance Balloon Bar Barrel Basket Basking-shark Batch Bimedial Bind Bipinnatifid Biquadratic Bisection Board-load Bolt Bord-lode Bottle Box Brewing Bring Burden Bushel By Cade Calculous Calorimeter Can Case Cassavi Category Cave Census Certain Charge Chest Ciderkin Clepsydra Coefficient Coemption Collar Commensurability Common Comparative Comparison Complement Computation Compute Content Contract Conversion Copiousness Cord Corn Corpulent Cracker Cube Damper Deal Decrease Decrement Defective Delve Density Depletion Determinate Diabetes Dicker Diet Dietetic Dietetical Difference Differential Digit Diminish Diminishable Disproportion Disproportionable Disproportional Disproportionally Disproportionatene Division Docimastic Dose Double Double-tongued Doubled Doubler Doubling Doubly Dram Draught Drop Effervescible Eightfold Electrometer Enhance Enlarge Enough Equal Equality Equation Equimultiple Equivalent Eruption Estate Estimate Estimating Estimation Eudiometer Evacuate Evaporometer Exceed Exceeding Exceedingness Excess Exchange Extraction Exuberance Fangot Float Flood Fluent Fluxion Fold Force Frail Full Fulmar Function Gasometer Gauging Generate Glass Goniometrical Gram Greatness Gush Half Handful Heap Hid Hide Hoard Hourglass Impair Impulse Incapability Inch Incommensurable Inconsiderable Increase Increment Indefinitude Index Inequality Inexhaustible Infinitesimal Infinity Ingurgitate Ingurgitation Inkstand Insufficient Inverse Involution Involve Jot Kirtle Ladle-ful Land Lea Leakage Leaven Less Lessen Like Line Little Loach Locality Major Make Mass Mathematics Maximum Mease Measurable Measure Medial Medium Mess Mete Mine Minimum Mite Moderate Modicum Moisture Momentum Monome Monomial Mood More Morsel Most Mouthful Mow Much Natrolite Negative Nome Nothing Number Ombrometer Over Overfreight Overplus Package Pail-full Parabolism Parcel Part Paucity Pea Pennyworth Peroxyd Perspective Petency Phasis Piece Pipe Pittance Pluvial Pocket Poison Polynome Potash Power Predicament Pretty Prodigious Proportion Proportional Prosodical Prosody Q Quadratic Quadripartition Quadruply Quantitative Quantitive Quantity Quantum Quartation Quintessence Radicality Raking Rate Ratio Reasonable Reciprocal Reduce Reduction Redundance Redundant Regurgitate Relish Remain Remarkably Resolution Resolve Reticle Return Rise Roll Root Sail Save Scale Scantlet Scantling Scarce Scarceness Scope Scruple Sea Second Seroon Sesquilteral Share Sheaf Short Sigh Sign Sink Sip Size Sliding-rule Slip Smack Small Smallness Smally So Some Something Somewhat Sop Space Species Spice Spoonful Sprinkle Sprinkling Spunge Square Star-shoot Stint Stinted Stinting Store Strength Submultiple Sum Superfluity Supplement Surd Survey Surveyor Tallow Tally Tare Task Tear Term Test Theorem Thereabout Thermometer Thought Tod Tombac Totality Touch Tract Train Transcendental Treasure Trebly Tripartition Tub Tun Type-metal Underdose Unequal Unit Universal Unreduced Variable Varnish Vinegar Wash Water-clock Water-gage Water-guage Water-logged Weigh Weight Wholesale World Yard
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