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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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... entire length of the house ran an enormously wide terrace edged with a balustrade, from the centre of which a flight of marble steps led to an Italian garden, its green sward and stiffly outlined flower-beds flanked by a quantity of ...

— The Fortunes of the Farrells • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey

... easier to know that a cake is bad than to make a good one." I had a tiny quantity of material which, by dint of much rolling, I might have expanded into a broad, flat, unsubstantial whole; I preferred, however, to make of my little piece of dough a little cake, small and therefore less pretentious. ...

— The Book of Delight and Other Papers • Israel Abrahams

... from your own firm, relating to some property which Lord Marketstoke disposed of before he left London. There is a schedule or memorandum of certain personal effects which he left in his rooms at Ellingham Hall: there is also a receipt from his bankers for a quantity of plate and jewellery which he had deposited with them before leaving—these things had been left him by his mother. There are also two documents which he seems to have considered it worth while to preserve all these ...

— The Middle of Things • J. S. Fletcher

... MAKAR ALEXIEVITCH,—Do not disquiet yourself. God will grant that all shall turn out well. Thedora has obtained a quantity of work, both for me and herself, and we are setting about it with a will. Perhaps it will put us straight again. Thedora suspects my late misfortunes to be connected with Anna Thedorovna; but I do not care—I feel extraordinarily cheerful today. So you are thinking of borrowing ...

— Poor Folk • Fyodor Dostoyevsky

... hour two women entered; one carrying a bowl with four chickens, and a quantity of rice; the other a large jug of water, and a smaller one of native spirit. Not a word was spoken, while the meal was being eaten. At the end, nothing but bones ...

— Through Three Campaigns - A Story of Chitral, Tirah and Ashanti • G. A. Henty

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