quantity
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
quantity/ˈkwɒntəti/
▶noun (pl. quantities)
- 1 a certain amount or number.
■ a considerable number or amount.
- 2 the property of something that is measurable: wages depended on quantity of output, regardless of quality.
- 3 Phonetics the perceived length of a vowel sound or syllable.
– origin ME: from OFr. quantite, from L. quantitas, from quantus ‘how great, how much’.
'quantity' also found in these Oxford entries:
abundance
- accumulate
- adjoint
- aliquot
- all
- ammunition
- amount
- ampoule
- analogue
- approximate
- arbitrary
- arithmetic progression
- bale
- batch
- biomass
- bit
- block
- budget
- bulk
- bundle
- by
- caboodle
- calculation
- cardinal number
- cartridge
- cetane number
- charge
- chill factor
- choropleth map
- clip
- coefficient
- complement
- conservation
- conserve
- conversion factor
- convert
- copious
- correction
- coulomb
- coupon
- covariant
- cross section
- cubic
- cumulative
- curie
- current
- curve
- cut
- dash
- decalcified
