Word Meanings - QUANTITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The attribute of being so much, and not more or less; the property of being measurable, or capable of increase and decrease, multiplication and division; greatness; and more concretely, that which answers the question "How much"; measure in

Additional info about word: QUANTITY

1. The attribute of being so much, and not more or less; the property of being measurable, or capable of increase and decrease, multiplication and division; greatness; and more concretely, that which answers the question "How much"; measure in regard to bulk or amount; determinate or comparative dimensions; measure; amount; bulk; extent; size. Hence, in specific uses: The extent or extension of a general conception, that is, the number of species or individuals to which it may be applied; also, its content or comprehension, that is, the number of its constituent qualities, attributes, or relations. The measure of a syllable; that which determines the time in which it is pronounced; as, the long or short quantity of a vowel or syllable. The relative duration of a tone. 2. That which can be increased, diminished, or measured; especially , anything to which mathematical processes are applicable. Note: Quantity is discrete when it is applied to separate objects, as in number; continuous, when the parts are connected, either in succession, as in time, motion, etc., or in extension, as by the dimensions of space, viz., length, breadth, and thickness. 3. A determinate or estimated amount; a sum or bulk; a certain portion or part; sometimes, a considerable amount; a large portion, bulk, or sum; as, a medicine taken in quantities, that is, in large quantities. The quantity of extensive and curious information which he had picked up during many months of desultory, but not unprofitable, study. Macaulay. Quantity of estate , its time of continuance, or degree of interest, as in fee, for life, or for years. Wharton -- Quantity of matter, in a body, its mass, as determined by its weight, or by its momentum under a given velocity. -- Quantity of motion , in a body, the relative amount of its motion, as measured by its momentum, varying as the product of mass and velocity. -- Known quantities , quantities whose values are given. -- Unknown quantities , quantities whose values are sought.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of QUANTITY)

• Amount
• Total
• aggregate
• sum
• whole
• quantity
• totality
• equality
• Degree
• Grade
• rank
• stage
• step
• extent
• measure
• mark
• rate
• position
• quality
• class
• station
• range
• amount
• limit
• order
• Extent
• distance
• space
• size
• Space
• Extension
• room
• interval
• boundlessness
• immeasurableness
• illimitableness
• intervenience
• interspace
• Sum
• Aggregate
• total
• example
• problem
• collection
• substance
• gist
• tenor
• height
• completion
• drift
• bearing

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of QUANTITY)

• Fall
• recede
• relapse
• decline
• fail
• Misfit
• misconform
• mismeasure
• misdeal
• misapportion
• Disturb
• disconnect
• disorder
• derange
• intermit
• remain
• be stationary

Related words: (words related to QUANTITY)

• CLASSIFIC
  Characterizing a class or classes; relating to classification.
• INTERVALLUM
  An interval. And a' shall laugh without intervallums. Shak. In one of these intervalla. Chillingworth.
• CLASSIFICATORY
  Pertaining to classification; admitting of classification. "A classificatory system." Earle.
• DERANGER
  One who deranges.
• CLASSICISM
  A classic idiom or expression; a classicalism. C. Kingsley.
• DERANGEMENT
  The act of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental disorder; insanity. Syn. -- Disorder; confusion; embarrassment; irregularity; disturbance; insanity;
• RANGEMENT
  Arrangement. Waterland.
• DRIFTBOLT
  A bolt for driving out other bolts.
• STATIONARINESS
  The quality or state of being stationary; fixity.
• LIMITARIAN
  Tending to limit.
• CLASSIS
  An ecclesiastical body or judicat (more info) 1. A class or order; sort; kind. His opinion of that classis of men. Clarendon.
• LIMITIVE
  Involving a limit; as, a limitive law, one designed to limit existing powers.
• TOTALIS
  The total. I look on nothing but totalis. B. Jonson.
• LIMITABLE
  Capable of being limited.
• STAGERY
  Exhibition on the stage.
• DERANGED
  Disordered; especially, disordered in mind; crazy; insane. The story of a poor deranged parish lad. Lamb.
• DRIFTPIECE
  An upright or curved piece of timber connecting the plank sheer with the gunwale; also, a scroll terminating a rail.
• DISCONNECT
  To dissolve the union or connection of; to disunite; to sever; to separate; to disperse. The commonwealth itself would . . . be disconnected into the dust and powder of individuality. Burke. This restriction disconnects bank paper and the precious
• DISCONNECTION
  The act of disconnecting, or state of being disconnected; separation; want of union. Nothing was therefore to be left in all the subordinate members but weakness, disconnection, and confusion. Burke.
• QUALITY
  1. The condition of being of such and such a sort as distinguished from others; nature or character relatively considered, as of goods; character; sort; rank. We lived most joyful, obtaining acquaintance with many of the city not of the meanest
• WATER-BEARER
  The constellation Aquarius.
• UNEXAMPLED
  Having no example or similar case; being without precedent; unprecedented; unparalleled. "A revolution . . . unexampled for grandeur of results." De Quincey.
• ESTRANGE
  extraneare to treat as a stranger, from extraneus strange. See 1. To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with. We must estrange our belief from everything which is not clearly and
• ORANGEADE
  A drink made of orange juice and water, corresponding to lemonade; orange sherbet.
• MENOSTATION
  See MENOSTASIS
• CITRANGE
  A citrous fruit produced by a cross between the sweet orange and the trifoliate orange . It is more acid and has a more pronounced aroma than the orange; the tree is hardier. There are several varieties.
• WEATHER STATION
  A station for taking meteorological observations, making weather forecasts, or disseminating such information. Such stations are of the first order when they make observations of all the important elements either hourly or by self-registering
• UNLIMITED
  1. Not limited; having no bounds; boundless; as, an unlimited expanse of ocean. 2. Undefined; indefinite; not bounded by proper exceptions; as, unlimited terms. "Nothing doth more prevail than unlimited generalities." Hooker. 3. Unconfined; not
• TORPEDO STATION
  A headquarters for torpedo vessels and their supplies, usually having facilities for repairs and for instruction and experiments. The principal torpedo station of the United States is at Newport,
• PHYSOGRADE
  Any siphonophore which has an air sac for a float, as the Physalia.
• SHIELD-BEARER
  Any small moth of the genus Aspidisca, whose larva makes a shieldlike covering for itself out of bits of leaves. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, carries a shield.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.