Quantity

Noun

 * 1) A fundamental, generic term used when referring to the measurement (count, amount) of a scalar, vector, number of items or to some other way of denominating the value of a collection or group of items.
 * You have to choose between quantity and quality.
 * 1) An indefinite amount of something.
 * Some soap making oils are best as base oils, used in a larger quantity in the soap, while other oils are best added in a small quantity.
 * Olive oil can be used practically in any quantity.
 * 1) A specific measured amount.
 * This bag would normally costs $497.50 for a quantity of 250, at a price of $1.99 per piece.
 * Generally it should not be used in a quantity larger than 15 percent. 
 * 1) A considerable measure or amount.
 * The Boeing P-26A was the first all-metal monoplane fighter produced in quantity for the U.S. Army Air Corps.
 * 1)  Indicates that the entire preceding expression is henceforth considered a single object.
 * x plus y quantity squared equals x squared plus 2xy plus y squared.

Abbreviations

 * Qty

Quotations

 * 2006, Jerome E. Kaufmann and Karen Schwitters, Elementary and Intermediate Algebra: A Combined Approach, p 89
 * For problems 58-67, translate each word phrase into an algebraic expression.
 * 65. x plus 9, the quantity squared
 * 2005, R. Mark Sirkin, Statistics For The Social Sciences, p137
 * The second, $$(\sum x)^2$$, read "summation of x, quantity squared," tells us to first add up all the xs to get $$\sum x$$ and then square $$\sum x$$ to get $$(\sum x)^2$$.
 * 1985, Serge Lang, Math!: Encounters with High School Students, p54
 * ANN. $$ra$$ quantity cubed.
 * SERGE LANG. That's right, $$(ra)^3$$.
 * SERGE LANG. That's right, $$(ra)^3$$.

Related terms

 * quantifier
 * quantify
 * quantitate
 * quantitative
 * quantum
 * quanta
 * qualitas

Adjectives for Quantity
exhaustless; immense; insufficient; unprecedented; unknown; indefinite; changeable; limited; astonishing; enormous; normal; unlimited; illustrative; dumb; untold; abstract; excessive; staggering; substantial; greater; surface; commercial; vast; goodly; monstrous; arbitrary;  sufficient;  minus; measurable; negligible; distorted; useless; unmanageable; surprising; considerable; incredible; generous; equivalant; adequate.

Verbs for Quantity
distribute—; estimate—; gather—; issue lessen—; limit—; measure—; muster— mixing; moral; mordant; musty; mysteri¬ous; narcotic; national; nightmare; noble; noticeable; nutritious; objectionable; occult; opiate; outstanding; outward; overlooked; pagan; passive; pedigreed; peculiar; personal; pervasive; physical; pictorial; picturesque; practical; predominant; preemi-ent; preternatural; prime; primest; profuse; protective; provocative; pulsating; pregnant; pungent; real; realistic; redeeming; relaxing; reliable; remarkable; representa¬tive; restraining; robust; romantic; saccharine; ruder; rugged; sachet; sensational; accumulate—; amass—; ascertain—; collect — distribute—; estimate—; gather—; issue — lessen—; limit—; measure—; muster— of rake up—; reduce—; regulate—; — dwindles; —masses; —mounts; —soars; — sedative; serious; shameless; sheer; shimmering; showy; singular; slurred; smooth; social; spiritual; sterling; statuesque; stern¬er; steely; subtle; strengthening; studious; masses; —mounts; —soars; — transcends.

Thesaurus
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

Etymology
From quantitas:, from quantus:.

Pronunciation

 * Note: This is with a relaxed middle T, and should be considered colloquial pronunciation.
 * Note: This is with a relaxed middle T, and should be considered colloquial pronunciation.
 * Note: This is with a relaxed middle T, and should be considered colloquial pronunciation.
 * Note: This is with a relaxed middle T, and should be considered colloquial pronunciation.
 * Note: This is with a relaxed middle T, and should be considered colloquial pronunciation.

Translations

 * Albanian: sasi
 * Arabic: كمية, مقدار
 * Armenian:
 * Basque: kantitatea
 * Belarusian: колькасць
 * Bulgarian: количество
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,  ,  ,  ,  數目,  数目
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:, kwantiteit
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek: ποσότητα


 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese: 量, 数量
 * Korean: 양
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian: کمیت, مقدار
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: quantidade
 * Romanian: cantitatea
 * Russian:
 * Serbian:
 * Slovene: količina, kvantiteta
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: పరిమాణం
 * Ukrainian: кількість
 * Vietnamese: lượng số


 * Catalan:
 * Dutch:
 * Ewe: gbɔsɔsɔ
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: ποσότητα
 * Hebrew:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: mengde
 * Nynorsk: mengd


 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: quantidade
 * Russian:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * !Xóõ: !ɢa̰n-!ɢa̰n (of objects), dzâa (of people)


 * Catalan:
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian:
 * Ewe: gbɔsɔsɔ
 * Finnish:
 * Greek: ποσότητα
 * Hebrew:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: mengde, antall
 * Nynorsk: mengd, tal


 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: quantidade
 * Russian:
 * Slovene:
 * Swedish: (uncountable),  (countable)
 * !Xóõ:


 * Catalan:
 * Ewe: gbɔsɔsɔ
 * Finnish: merkittävä määrä, paljous
 * Hebrew:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: mengde, antall
 * Nynorsk: mengd, tal


 * Polish: duża ilość
 * Portuguese: quantidade
 * Russian:


 * Finnish:


 * German: in Klammern


 * : kvanto
 * : -ed (suffix)
 * : quantitate
 * : quantità


 * : 분량 (bullyang)
 * : quantum, quantitas, quantitatis
 * : cantidad
 * : mödot
 * : mödot