quantity plural
quan·ti·ty
The plural form of quantity is quantities
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- noun plural quantity a particular or indefinite amount of anything: a small quantity of milk; the ocean's vast quantity of fish. 1
- noun plural quantity an exact or specified amount or measure: Mix the ingredients in the quantities called for. 1
- noun plural quantity a considerable or great amount: to extract ore in quantity. 1
- noun plural quantity 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. 1
- noun plural quantity Music. the length or duration of a note. 1
- noun plural quantity Logic. the character of a proposition as singular, universal, particular, or mixed, according to the presence or absence of certain kinds of quantifiers. 1
- noun plural quantity that amount, degree, etc., in terms of which another is greater or lesser. 1
- noun plural quantity Prosody, Phonetics. the relative duration or length of a sound or a syllable, with respect to the time spent in pronouncing it; length. 1
- noun plural quantity Law. the nature of an estate as affected by its duration in time. 1