Quantity (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

noun, plural quan·ti·ties.
  1. a particular or indefinite amount of anything: a small quantity of milk;the ocean's vast quantity of fish.
  2. an exact or specified amount or measure: Mix the ingredients in the quantities called for.
  3. a considerable or great amount: to extract ore in quantity.
  4. Mathematics.
    • the property of magnitude involving comparability with other magnitudes.
    • something having magnitude, or size, extent, amount, or the like.
    • magnitude, size, volume, area, or length.
  5. the length or duration of a note.
  6. the character of a proposition as singular, universal, particular, or mixed, according to the presence or absence of certain kinds of quantifiers.
  7. that amount, degree, etc., in terms of which another is greater or lesser.
  8. the relative duration or length of a sound or a syllable, with respect to the time spent in pronouncing it; length.
  9. the nature of an estate as affected by its duration in time.
noun plural -ties
    • a specified or definite amount, weight, number, etc
    • (as modifier)
  1. the aspect or property of anything that can be measured, weighed, counted, etc
  2. a large or considerable amount
  3. an entity having a magnitude that may be denoted by a numerical expression
  4. a specified magnitude or amount; the product of a number and a unit
  5. the characteristic of a proposition dependent on whether it is a universal or particular statement, considering all or only part of a class
  6. the relative duration of a syllable or the vowel in it
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