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Quantity

noun

(pl. quantities)

How much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify. Synonyms: amount, measure.

An adequate or large amount.

The concept that something has a magnitude and can be represented in mathematical expressions by a constant or a variable.

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... into a large living-room, homelike with bright-hued Navaho rugs, a quantity of cliff-dweller pottery, and a sufficiency of heavy, comfortable furniture hewn out of cedar. The chairs were seated and backed with tightly stretched rawhide. Several artistic pictures from periodicals were pasted on the stone walls. In one corner a pot was ...

— Bloom of Cactus • Robert Ames Bennet

... wake up and begin to think of the quantity of rye which lay in the warehouses, or there came a series of visions, clear and definite, such as appear to us in the darkness of the night; first, an ember somewhere smouldering, spreading, and then setting fire ...

— Skipper Worse • Alexander Lange Kielland

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— The Works of John Bunyan • John Bunyan

... an immense quantity of chickens and they all turned out to be roosters [laughter]; but I resolved—I presume as William Nye says about the farm—to carry it on; I would carry on that farm as long as my wife's money lasted. [Laughter.] A great mishap was when my Alderney bull ...

— Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O • Various

... at the quantity of work demanded of the victims to lace, and Grace could hardly obtain leave to consult Mrs. Kelland. But she snapped at the order, for the honour and glory of the thing, and undertook through the ramifications of her connexion to obtain the whole bridal array complete. "For such a ...

— The Clever Woman of the Family • Charlotte M. Yonge

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