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Definition: Quantity |
QuantityNoun1. How much there is of something that you can measure. 2. An adequate or large amount; "he had a quantity of ammunition". 3. Something that has a magnitude and can be represented in mathematical expressions by a constant or a variable. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "quantity" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Etymology: Quantity \Quan"ti*ty\, noun; plural Quantities. [French quantite, Latin quantitas, from quantus bow great, how much, akin to quam bow, English how, who. See Who.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Aerospace | See number. (references) |
Computing | In Standard Generalized Markup Language(SGML), a numeric restriction on some aspect of markup, such as the maximum length of a name or the maximum nesting level of open elements. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mathematics | The quantitative determination of a quantity expressible as the product of a number and a unit of measurement. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | Deals with the amount, and not the nature, of a substance. In the case of a coal seam, quantity refers to its workable thickness and acreage. In the case of ore, the quantity determines its commercial importance. Unit ore values without the quantity factor have only a qualitative significance. (references) |
Tips from 1870 | Usage: Quantity, Number. Quantity refers to the how much; number to the how many. "He purchased a large quantity of wheat, corn, apples, lime, and sand, and a number of houses, stores, chairs, and books." It is, therefore, incorrect to say, "There was a large quantity of bicycles in the yard," "He sold a large quantity of books at auction." Source: Slips of Speech. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The quantity of something is its amount, number or degree. It is often used as the complement of quality.
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Synonyms: QuantitySynonyms: amount (n), measure (n), quantum (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Assemblage | Accumulation; (store); congeries, heap, lump, pile, rouleau, tissue, mass, pyramid; bing; drift; snowball, snowdrift; acervation, cumulation; glomeration, agglomeration; conglobation; conglomeration, conglomerate; coacervate, coacervation, coagmentation, aggregation, concentration, congestion, omnium gaterum, spicilegium, black hole of Calcutta; quantity; (greatness). |
Fewness | Noun: fewness; Adjective: paucity, small number; small quantity; rarity; infrequency; handful, maniple; minority; exiguity. |
Greatness | Great quantity, quantity, deal, power, sight, pot, volume, world; mass, heap; (assemblage); stock; (store); peck, bushel, load, cargo; cartload, wagonload, shipload; flood, spring tide; abundance; (sufficiency). |
Littleness | Point; atom; (small quantity); fragment; (small part); powder; point of a pin, mathematical point; minutiae; (unimportance). |
Noun: littleness; Adjective: smallness; (of quantity); exiguity, inextension; parvitude, parvity; duodecimo; Elzevir edition, epitome, microcosm; rudiment; vanishing point; thinness. | |
Adjective: little; small; (in quantity); minute, diminutive, microscopic; microzoal; inconsiderable; (unimportant); exiguous, puny, tiny, wee, petty, minikin, miniature, pygmy, pigmy, elfin; undersized; dwarf, dwarfed, dwarfish; spare, stunted, limited; cramp, cramped; pollard, Liliputian, dapper, pocket; portative, portable; duodecimo; dumpy, squat; short. | |
Multitude | Noun: multitude; numerous; Adjective: numerosity, numerality; multiplicity; profusion; (plenty); legion, host; great number, large number, round number, enormous number; a quantity, numbers, array, sight, army, sea, galaxy; scores, peck, bushel, shoal, swarm, draught, bevy, cloud, flock, herd, drove, flight, covey, hive, brood, litter, farrow, fry, nest; crowd; (assemblage); lots; all in the world and his wife. |
Quantity | Noun: quantity, magnitude; size; (dimensions); amplitude, magnitude, mass, amount, sum, quantum, measure, substance, strength, force. |
Size | Noun: size, magnitude, dimension, bulk, volume; largeness; Adjective: greatness; (of quantity); expanse; (space); amplitude, mass; proportions. |
Adjective: large, big; great; (in quantity); considerable, bulky, voluminous, ample, massive, massy; capacious, comprehensive; spacious; mighty, towering, fine, magnificent. | |
Smallness | Small quantity, modicum, trace, hint, minimum; vanishing point; material point, atom, particle, molecule, corpuscle, point, speck, dot, mote, jot, iota, ace; minutiae, details; look, thought, idea, soupcon, dab, dight, whit, tittle, shade, shadow; spark, scintilla, gleam; touch, cast; grain, scruple, granule, globule, minim, sup, sip, sop, spice, drop, droplet, sprinkling, dash, morceau, screed, smack, tinge, tincture; inch, patch, scantling, tatter, cantlet, flitter, gobbet, mite, bit, morsel, crumb, seed, fritter, shive; snip, snippet; snick, snack, snatch, slip, scrag; chip, chipping; shiver, sliver, driblet, clipping, paring, shaving, hair. |
Finiteness, finite quantity. | |
Sufficiency | Outpouring; flood; (great quantity); tide; (river); repletion; (redundancy); satiety. |
Unsubstantiality | Noun: unsubstantiality, insubstantiality; nothingness, nihility; no degree, no part, no quantity, no thing. |
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Clever | I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up. (references; author: Mark Twain) Hugs are not measured by quantity; they are measured by quality. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Unknown Quantity (1919) | |
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 | This trophozoite is contained within a normal sized RBC. The compact cytoplasm contains a large quantity of chromatin, often producing a band formation. Towards the end of the trophozoite stage, the parasite replicates its DNA. Credit: CDC. |  | Placement of the catch/samples into buckets. There were 3 mesh sizes used for each gillnet. The catch from each panel was placed in separate buckets to track the size and quantity of species brought in for each net's mesh size. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | Figure 44. Bamberg pneumatic bathometer, constructed by Carl Bamberg. This instrument is in fact an accessory to a Bamberg sounder, which was similar to the Thomson sounder. It used the pressure of water to push a certain quantity of water into a tube and subsequently measuring it in order to determine the depth that the tube had attained. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Figure 29. Gilson sounder, described in 1906 by Gustave Gilson of the University of Louvain. He described a perfected scoop sounder which was similar to the Stellwagen sounder but contained a number of improvements for assuring a larger quantity of sediment obtained than with the earlier instrument. It was first tested in 1899 near Ostende off the coast of Belgium. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | The size of the culture, seen here in a dish, relates to the quantity of the drug in the patient's blood. / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by P. Almasy.. |  | The Measure of Life : Quantity and Quality in Biological Explanation. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Lockheed T2V-1 "SeaStar" makes its first carrier landing, during carrier suitability tests on board Antietam off the U.S. east coast, circa 7 October 1957. This photograph was originally released by the Lockheed Newsbureau on 9 October 1957, with the caption: "SeaStar Flexes Sea-Legs -- U.S. Navy's Lockheed T2V-1 SeaStar skims in for its first 'sea duty' landing aboard the U.S.S. Antietam. The new ship-or-shore duty trainer recently completed primary carrier suitability tests during operations held off the East Coast. Designed to combine top performance and safety in a two-place school-plane, the SeaStar is in quantity production at Lockheed's California Division. Credit: NAVY. |  | Junior Red Cross boys and girls of Greece sent a great quantity of currants to the Junior Red Cross children of the United States. Children in Atlanta baked a quantity of cookies, containing the currants, and sent them to the drought regions. Here are boy. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Production. Marine engines. Camshafts for marine engines for the Navy are produced in great quantity at a Midwest plant. The finest of material and workmanship go into their manufacture. Continental Motors, Michigan. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | One of the essential materials in the making of life preservers for our navy is kapok, which we obtain in quantity only from the Dutch East Indies and the Philippines. Here it has been baled and is ready for shipment from a Dutch East Indies plantation. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Count Axel Gustafsson Oxenstierna | The quantity of books in a person's library, is often a cloud of witnesses to the ignorance of the owner. |
Edward Hyde | It is not the quantity of the meat, but the cheerfulness of the guests, which makes the feast. |
Francis Quarles | He that gives all, though but little, gives much=== for God looks not to the quantity of the gift, but the quality of the giver. |
John Ruskin | The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it. |
Jules Renard | Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred. |
Seneca | It is quality rather than quantity that matters. |
Voltaire | It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Germany further undertakes to deliver annually to Luxemburg, if directed by the Reparation Commission, a quantity of coal equal to the pre-war annual consumption of German coal in Luxemburg. (reference) |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | William Larkins let me keep a larger quantity than usual this year. |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Each communicated to the rest the quantity of light he had. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | He brought a gallon can from the floor of the front seat and poured a quantity of cheap black oil into the pipe and checked the level again. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | In one of my fobs there was a silver watch, and in the other a small quantity of gold in a purse. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | Yet a single glass of its water held up to the light is as colorless as an equal quantity of air. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Without villi, a person becomes malnourished--regardless of the quantity of food eaten. (references) | |
At the present time, we assume that all effects of IVIG are related to the quantity and quality of IgG in the product. (references) | ||
The folds in the brain add to its surface area and therefore increase the amount of gray matter and the quantity of information that can be processed. (references) | ||
Business | Thus demand of SSE has increased in quality and quantity. (references) | |
A limited quantity of plastic material is produced in the country. (references) | ||
Ash and slag from steam-generating stations represent 80% of this quantity. (references) | ||
Children | Portugal | The directorate also improved the quantity and quality of temporary shelters for children aged 3 months to 3 years. (references) |
Economic History | Mauritius | A similar quantity is expected to be bought in 2002. (references) |
Haiti | It is produced locally, albeit in very small quantity. (references) | |
Human Rights | Japan | Prisoners faced severe restrictions on the quantity of their incoming and outgoing correspondence. (references) |
South Africa | Food, especially for prisoners with HIV/AIDS and other medical problems, frequently is of poor quality and insufficient quantity. (references) | |
Sri Lanka | This shortfall contributed to an already serious deterioration in the quality and quantity of medical care furnished to the civilian population. (references) | |
Political Economy | IRELAND | This applies mainly to services provided by engineers, architects, and quantity surveyors. (references) |
BULGARIA | Labels must contain the following information in Bulgarian: quality, quantity, ingredients, certification authorization number (if any), and manner of storage, transport, use or maintenance. (references) | |
AUSTRIA | Labeling requirements: Information is required for most, and all wrapped, foodstuffs identifying the composition of the product, the manufacturer, methods of storage and preparation, and the quantity. (references) | |
Political Rights | United Kingdom | In October the Independent International Commission on Decommissioning reported that the IRA had put a quantity of its weapons "permanently beyond use." Trimble was elected as First Minister in the Assembly, a significant pro-Agreement development. (references) |
Trade | Vietnam | The inspection covers quality, specifications, quantity and volume. (references) |
Australia | The word "net" should always be used when expressing quantity in mass. (references) | |
Travel | Haiti | Businesspeople who are planning to bring a large quantity of equipment or products temporarily into Haiti should contact the Commercial Office for guidance well before arranging final shipment. (references) |
Philippines | The Philippine Bureau of Customs requires a traveler to fill out a Re-export Commitment Form and imposes a corresponding cash bond for exhibit materials; articles brought into the Philippines for repair, processing or reconditioning; software; and laptop computers (in commercial quantity). (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | INTRODUCTION, n. A social ceremony invented by the devil for the gratification of his servants and the plaguing of his enemies. The introduction attains its most malevolent development in this century, being, indeed, closely related to our political system. Every American being the equal of every other American, it follows that everybody has the right to know everybody else, which implies the right to introduce without request or permission. The Declaration of Independence should have read thus: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, and the right to make that of another miserable by thrusting upon him an incalculable quantity of acquaintances; liberty, particularly the liberty to introduce persons to one another without first ascertaining if they are not already acquainted as enemies; and the pursuit of another's happiness with a running pack of strangers." |
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Jodie Foster | I wouldn't know. I think you're better off being loved. I think loving your kids is the most important thing. And it's the quality of that love, it's not the quantity and the amount of people that are doing it. |
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Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | Much good, in my judgment, would be produced by prohibiting sales of the public lands except to actual settlers at a reasonable reduction of price, and to limit the quantity which shall be sold to them. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | The quality of American life must keep pace with the quantity of American goods. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | We want a mutual limit on both the quality and the quantity of the giant nuclear arsenals of both nations, and then we want actual reductions in strategic arms as a major step toward the ultimate elimination of nuclear weapons from the face of the Earth. |
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| "Quantity" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.74% of the time. "Quantity" is used about 2,337 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.74% | 2,331 | 3,814 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.26% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 2,337 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "quantity": a great quantity of ♦ a minus quantity ♦ arbitrary quantity ♦ auxiliary energising quantity ♦ auxiliary energizing quantity ♦ bring a quantity ♦ bring a quantity of ♦ buy a quantity of ♦ complex quantity ♦ Compound quantity ♦ Concrete quantity ♦ constant quantity ♦ critical quantity ♦ damped sinusoidal quantity ♦ definite quantity ♦ Discrete quantity ♦ document copies required quantity ♦ document originals required quantity ♦ energising quantity ♦ energizing quantity ♦ enormous quantity ♦ Exponential quantity ♦ extreme range of an influencing quantity ♦ finite quantity ♦ fundamental quantity ♦ furnish a certain quantity of ♦ great quantity ♦ harmonic of a periodic quantity ♦ hydraulic fluid quantity indicator ♦ Imaginary quantity ♦ Impossible quantity ♦ in great quantity ♦ indefinite quantity ♦ Indeterminate quantity ♦ influencing quantity ♦ input energising quantity ♦ input energizing quantity ♦ integrating quantity ♦ large indefinite quantity ♦ large quantity ♦ little quantity ♦ make a quantity ♦ make quantity of ♦ measurable quantity ♦ negative quantity ♦ negligible quantity ♦ no quantity ♦ nominal range of an influencing quantity ♦ numerical quantity ♦ parametric quantity ♦ plus quantity ♦ positive quantity ♦ prime quantity ♦ pulsed quantity ♦ quality matters more than quantity ♦ quantity culture ♦ quantity discount ♦ quantity mark ♦ quantity of action ♦ quantity of estate ♦ quantity of heat ♦ quantity of matter ♦ quantity of motion ♦ quantity of securities booked ♦ quantity price ♦ quantity production ♦ quantity purchase ♦ quantity survey ♦ quantity surveyor ♦ quantity unit ♦ radical quantity ♦ rational quantity ♦ reference value of an influencing quantity ♦ relative quantity ♦ residual quantity ♦ sinusoidal quantity ♦ small indefinite quantity ♦ Square root of a quantity ♦ unknown quantity ♦ value of a quantity ♦ variable quantity ♦ work item quantity determination message. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "quantity": quantity-addicted, quantity-constrained, quantity-ordered. | |
Ending with "quantity": minor-quantity, price-quantity. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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Albanian | shumicë (host, lot, majority, mass, masses, orgy, plurality, preponderance, superabundance, the million, thousand, weight), sasi (amount, body, greatness, intake, lot, lump, mass, number, pack, quantum, run, sum, worth), madhësi (bulk, dimension, ensemble, gauge, greatness, largeness, loftiness, magnificence, magnitude, majesty, operand, rout, size). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | كمية (amount, deal, magnitude, measure, number, size, volume), مقدار (magnitude, measure, number, proportion, volume), قسط (installment, instalment, measure, ration), قدر (afford, amount, appraise, appreciate, assess, assume, be able to, be capable of, believe, can, consider, cost, count, deal, degree, esteem, estimate, evaluate, guess, lot, magnitude, manage to, measure, number, predestination, predestine, predetermine, presume, prize, proportion, rate, size, suppose, think, treasure, value, volume). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | квантитет, количество (amount, deal, measure, number, percentage, quantum, volume), голямо количество (acres, body, bushel, cart load, gob, mass, oodles, quantities, raft, slathers, stack, swag, volume, volumes, wads), величина (caliber, dimension, highness, largeness, magnitude, name, value), много (almighty, amain, awfully, bally, deep, dozens, ever so, good deal, great deal, greatly, heartily, high, highly, hundreds, immensely, jolly, loads of, lot, lots of, many, mint, much, nice and, only too, passing, plenty, power, quantities, real, right, sight, simply, sopping, sorely, terrifically, thumping, to a large degree, to death, unco, unusually, vastly, very, very many, very much indeed), изобилие (abundance, affluence, amplitude, exuberance, fertility, flush, flushness, galore, lashings, liberality, luxuriance, opulence, plenitude, prodigality, productiveness, productivity, profusion, quantities, raft, redundance, redundancy, richness, spate, store, superfluity, teeming), дължина (extent, length, longitude, run, shot). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Catalan | quantitat. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 量 (amount, capacity, to estimate, to measure), 額 (amount, forehead, quota, volume), 数量 (Quant, Quantities), 數量 (amount), 份量 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | velikost (bulk, grandeur, greatness, largeness, size), poèet (calculus, number, tally), množství (amount, bulk, lot, many, measure, multitude, number, plurality, quantum, shoal, volume), kvantita. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | værdi af en størrelse (value, value of a quantity), mængde, kvantum. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | hoeveelheid (contract size, lot, minimum unit of trading, quotity, round lot, trading unit), grootheid (grandeur, greatness, size), sterkte (force, fortification, strength, vigour), kwantiteit, boel (accumulation, crowd, heap, mass, multitude, pile). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | kvanto. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | mongd (accumulation, crowd, heap, lump, mass, multitude, pile). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مقدار (Content, Deal, Extent, Outturn, Percentage, Proportion, Scantling, Size, Sup, Value), مبلغ (Amount, Propagandist, Sum, Tot), چندی (Partly, Quantitative), کمیت , قدر (Deal, Esteem, Importance, Magnitude, Significance, Valence, Value), حد (Confine, Deal, Extent, Limit, Margin, Mark, Measure, Period, Precinct, Provenance, Tract), اندازه (Bulk, Deal, Dimension, Extent, Gauge, Indicator, Limit, Measure, Scale, Size, Span, Tract). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | määrä (amount, degree, extent, number, proportion, sum). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | quantité. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Quantität, Menge (accumulation, amount, assemblage, bulk, bundle, crowd, deal, forest, heap, host, load, lot, mass, measure, mob, multitude, pile, plenty, portion, quantum, quiverful, set, squash), Quantum (quota, ration), Größe (area, bigness, bulk, deepness, dimensions, extent, giant, grandeur, greatness, growth, heft, height, important figure, largeness, magnificence, magnitude, measurement, significance, sizableness, size, swell, tallness, variable, vastness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ποσότητα (volume). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | כמות (amount, measure, volume). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | mennyiség (amount, complement, deal, magnitude, quantum, stack, stint). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | banyaknya (amount, deal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Irish | slám. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | quantit (assemblage, batch, bulk, bunch, content, crowd, crush, deal, heap, lot, mass, more, number, sum), grandezza (bigness, breadth, depth, grandeur, greatness, largeness, magnitude, size, width). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 量 (amount, portion, volume), 高 (amount, amount of money, number, volume), 数量 (volume), 嵩 (bulk, volume), 多寡 (amount, number), クーロン力 (car horn, Chrysler, Clark, classic, classic car, classic life, classic races, classical, classicism, clerk, client, client server, climax, climber, climbing, climograph, cloud, collider, cook, cookie, cooking, cooking card, cooking school, Coulomb's force, coutouriere, couturier, crime story, crisis, criteria, crouching start, crown, cryoelectronics, cryogenics, cumin, cushion, cushion ball, Klaxon, Kuwait, large size, multi-purpose health facility, pitcher throwing to first base, quake, Quaker, quality, quality paper, quantize, quark, quarter, quarterback, quarterly, quartet, quartz, quasar, queen, queen size, Queen's English, Queensland, question, question mark, quick, quick motion, quick step, quick turn, quilter, quintet, quinto, quiz, quiz mania, quiz rally, quota, quotation mark, quote, Society of Friends, the Queen Mary), 分量 (amount). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | たか (amount, amount of money, falcon, hawk, number, polyvalence, volume), すうりょう (volume), ぶ"りょう (amount), かさ (bulk, halo, hat, parasol, ring, shade, umbrella, volume), りょう (amount, catch, charge, companion, completion, defy, dormitory, eclipse, endure, excel, fee, finish, fishing, game, good, hostel, hunting, keep out, material, official, portion, pull through, rate, skill, slight, stave off, surpass, tide over, understanding, volume), クォンティティー . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 양 (Quant, Quanta, Quantities, Quantitive, Quantum, sheep, Volume). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Malay | jumlah (amount, sum). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | mooad (amount), cooid yiooldagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | beløp (amount, sum). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Papiamen | kantidat. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | antityquay quantidade (a good deal, amount, batch, brew, deal, length, measure, number, quantum, share). (various references) sarcinã (assignment, burden, capacity, charge, faggot, gestation, load, lot, mission, obligation, onus, pack, part, pregnancy, target, task, trouble, weight), prozodie, numår, mulţime (accumulation, army, array, body, boodle, cloud, cluster, concourse, crowd, dozen, drove, fifty, flock, forest, generality, heap, herd, hive, host, huddle, lashing, manifold, mass, mob, multitude, muster, number, Peck, pile, plenty, populace, press, rabble, ream, shoal, sight, squash, stack, swarm, throng), mãrime (bigwig, bulk, dimensions, extent, greatness, magnitude, measure, proportion, scale, size, volume), cantitate mare (accumulation, lashing, mort), cantitate de energie, cantitate (amount, heap, rate, value). (various references) количество (amount, amt amount, forkful, number, quantities, quantum). (various references) ireamh (number, numbering, numeration). (various references) kvantitet, količina (amount, batch, content, lot). (various references) cantidad (amount, chunk, deal, load, lot, raft, sum, total, volume). (various references) storhet (bulk, dimension, extend, grandeur, greatness, heavyweight, magnitude, size, worthy), mängd (accumulation, amount, capacity, crowd, extent, heap, incidence, lot, mass, multitude, no end of, pack, pile, quantum, set, shoal, throng, variety), kvantitet. (various references) kabuuán, halagá (price, value, worth). (various references) sayı (basket, button, cage, conversion, count, figure, goal, issue, number, numeral, numerary, point, score), nicelik (proportion), miktar (amount, deal, measure, number, portion, proportion, quanta, quantitative, quantum, sum, supply). (various references) ululyk (size), mukdar (amount, number). (various references) частка (allotment, ante, contingent, crumb, deal, detail, divvy, dose, draught, fraction, lobe, particle, portion, quota, quotient, shred, slice), кількість (amount, number, numerosity), величина (admeasurement, bigness, bulk, dimension, greatness, magnitude). (various references) vô số (countless, fifty, innumerable, innumerous, legion, lot, multiplicity, multitudinous, uncountable), số lượng (amount), rất nhiều mua một số lớn, lượng. (various references) twysged (lot), talm (number, space, while), maint (number, size). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | multiplicatione, multiplicationem, nimietate, numerus, paule, pauli, paulo, paululum, paulum, quant., quantitas, quantitatem, tripoli, vis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Isaiah Chapter 22, Verse 24 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai estai pepoiqwV ep' auton paV endoxoV en tw oikw tou patroV autou apo mikrou ewV megalou kai esontai epikremamenoi autw |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et suspendent super eum omnem gloriam domus patris eius vasorum diversa genera omne vas parvulum a vasis craterarum usque ad omne vas musicorum |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And I shal hangen vp on hym al the glorie of the hous of his fader, off vesseles dyuers kindis, eche litil vessel, fro the vesseles of wyn chalices vnto alle vessel of musikes. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's house, the offspring and the issue, all vessels of small quantity, from the vessels of cups, even to all the vessels of flagons. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's house, the offspring and the issue, all vessels of small quantity, from the vessels of cups, even to all the vessels of flagons. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And all the glory of his father's family will be hanging on him, all their offspring, every small vessel, even the cups and the basins. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Isaiah Chapter 22, Verse 24 |
| Cebuano | Ug ilang igabitay sa ibabaw kaniya ang tanang himaya sa balay sa iyang amahan, ang mga anak nga kaliwat ug ang mga sanga, ang tanang mga vaso nga magagmay, gikan sa mga tasa hangtud sa tanang mga frasco. |
| Croatian | O njega æe se vješati sva slava njegova doma oèinskog, izdanci i potomstvo, sve malo posuðe, od zdjelica do æupova. |
| Danish | Men hænger hans Fædrenehus's hele Vægt sig på ham, Skud og Vildskud, alle Småkar, fra Fadene til alle Krukkerne, |
| Dutch | En men zal aan hem hangen alle heerlijkheid van het huis zijns vaders, der uitspruitelingen en der afkomelingen, ook alle kleine vaten, van de vaten der bekers af, zelfs tot al de vaten der flessen. |
| Finnish | Hänen varaansa ripustautuu hänen isänsä suvun kaikki paljous, vesat ja versot, kaikki pienet astiat, maljat ja ruukut kaikki. |
| French | Il sera le soutien de toute la gloire de la maison de son père, Des rejetons nobles et ignobles, De tous les petits ustensiles, Des bassins comme des vases. |
| German | daß man an ihn hänge alle Herrlichkeit seines Vaterhauses, Kind und Kindeskinder, alle kleinen Geräte, beide, Trinkgefäße und allerlei Krüge. |
| Hungarian | S reá függesztik atyja házának minden dicsõségét: fiakat és unokákat, minden kicsiny edényt, a csészeedényektõl a tömlõknek minden edényeiig. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Tetapi kaum kerabat dan tanggungannya akan menjadi beban baginya. Mereka akan menggantungkan diri kepadanya, seperti periuk belanga bergantungan pada pasak. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Padanya juga akan digantung oranglah segala sesuatu yang indah-indah di dalam rumah bapanya, beberapa perhiasan dan destar yang indah-indah, dan lagi pelbagai serba kecil dari pada serba piala dan serba bokor. |
| Italian | A lui attaccheranno ogni gloria della casa di suo padre: discendenti e nipoti, ogni vaso anche piccolo, dalle tazze alle anfore». |
| Maori | Ka whakarihia ano e ratou ki runga ki a ia te kororia katoa o te whare o tona papa, nga uri, nga whanau, nga oko ririki katoa, ara nga oko hei peihana, me nga oko katoa ano hei haka. |
| Norwegian | Og de skal henge på ham hele tyngden av hans fars hus, de edle og de ville skudd, alle småkarene, både fatene og alle krukkene*. # <* d.e. hele hans ætt.> |
| Rumanian | Pe el se va sprijini toatq slava casei tatqlui squ, odraslele alese wi de ocarq, toate sculele cele mici, atkt lighenele ckt wi vasele.`` |
| Spanish | De él dependerá toda la gloria de la casa de su padre, la prole y la posteridad; y todos los utensilios hasta los más pequeños, desde las fuentes ceremoniales hasta todas las tinajas.' |
| Swedish | Men om då hans faders hus, så tungt det är, hänger sig på honom, med ättlingar och avkomlingar -- alla slags småkärl av vad slag som helst, skålar eller allahanda krukor -- |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "quantity": disquantity. (additional references) | |
Words containing "quantity": disquantitying. (additional references) | |
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"Quantity" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: quanitity, quanitty, quanity, quanlity, quantat, quanti, quantite, Quantitech, quantitie, quantitiy, quanty, Quatbi, quatity. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "quantity" (pronounced kwÄ"ntutē or kwÄ"nutē) |
| 5 | -n t u t ē | entity, identity, nonentity. |
| 4 | -t u t ē | chastity, sanctity. |
| 3 | -u t ē | ability, abnormality, absurdity, acceptability, accessibility, accountability, acidity, activity, actuality, acuity, adaptability, admissibility, adversity, advisability, affinity, affordability, aggressivity, agility, alacrity, alkalinity, ambiguity, amenity, amiability, amity, analyticity, animosity, annuity, anonymity, antiquity, anxiety, applicability, atrocity, audacity, austerity, authenticity, authority, availability, banality, barbarity, believability, bestiality, biodiversity, bisexuality, brevity, brutality, calamity, capability, capacity, captivity, causality, cavity, celebrity, centrality, charity, civility, clarity, collegiality, commodity, commonality, community, comparability, compatibility, complexity, complicity, comprehensibility, conditionality, conductivity, confidentiality, conformity, congeniality, congruity, connectivity, constitutionality, continuity, convertibility, creativity, credibility, credulity, criminality, criticality, crotchety, culpability, curiosity, cyclicality, debility, deductibility, deformity, deity, deniability, density, dependability, depravity, deputy, desirability, dexterity, dignity, dimensionality, disability, discontinuity, disparity, dissimilarity, disunity, diversity, divinity, docility, domesticity, duality, ductility, duplicity, durability, eccentricity, elasticity, electability, electricity, eligibility, enforceability, enmity, enormity, equality, equanimity, equity, eternity, ethnicity, eventuality, exclusivity, expressivity, extraterritoriality, extremity, facility, fallibility, falsity, familiarity, fatality, feasibility, Felicity, femininity, ferocity, fertility, festivity, fidelity, finality, flammability, flexibility, fluidity, formality, fragility, fraternity, frivolity, frugality, functionality, futility, generality, generosity, geniality, gentility, gratuity, gravity, gullibility, heredity, heterogeneity, heterosexuality, hilarity, homogeneity, homosexuality, hospitality, hostility, humanity, humidity, humility, hyperactivity, hypersensitivity, illegality, illiquidity, immaturity, immobility, immorality, immortality, immunity, impartiality, impersonality, impossibility, impropriety, impunity, impurity, inability, inaccessibility, inactivity, incapacity, incivility, incompatibility, incongruity, incredulity, indemnity, indestructibility, indignity, individuality, inequality, inequity, inevitability, infallibility, inferiority, infertility, infidelity, infinity, infirmity, inflexibility, informality, ingenuity, inhumanity, insanity, insecurity, insensitivity, instability, instrumentality, insularity, integrity, intensity, invincibility, invisibility, invulnerability, irrationality, irregularity, irresponsibility, irritability, laity, laxity, legality, legibility, lethality, levity, liability, liberality, liquidity, lividity, locality, longevity, majority, malleability, maneuverability, marketability, masculinity, materiality, maternity, maturity, mediocrity, mendacity, mentality, minority, miscibility, mobility, modality, modernity, monstrosity, morality, morbidity, mortality, motility, multiplicity, municipality, musicality, mutuality, nationality, nativity, necessity, negativity, neutrality, nobility, Nonconformity, nonutility, normality, notoriety, nudity, obesity, objectivity, obscenity, obscurity, oddity, opacity, opportunity, originality, overcapacity, oversensitivity, palatability, parity, partiality, particularity, passivity, paternity, paucity, peculiarity, permeability, perpetuity, perplexity, personality, perversity, piety, plausibility, plurality, polarity, polity, pomposity, popularity, portability, possibility, posterity, practicality, predictability, principality, priority, probability, probity, proclivity, productivity, profanity, profitability, progressivity, promiscuity, propensity, proportionality, propriety, prosperity, proximity, publicity, punctuality, purity, quality, radioactivity, rapidity, rarity, rationality, reactivity, readability, reality, receptivity, reciprocity, reflexivity, regularity, relativity, reliability, religiosity, respectability, responsibility, retroactivity, rickety, rigidity, salinity, sanity, scarcity, seasonality, security, selectivity, senility, seniority, sensibility, sensitivity, sensuality, sentimentality, serendipity, serenity, severity, sexuality, similarity, simplicity, sincerity, sobriety, society, solemnity, solidarity, solidity, sorority, speciality, specificity, spirituality, spontaneity, stability, sterility, stupidity, subjectivity, suitability, superconductivity, superfluidity, superiority, supermajority, surety, survivability, susceptibility, sustainability, technicality, temerity, tenacity, theatricality, timidity, tonality, totality, toxicity, tranquility, transferability, Trinity, triviality, turbidity, ubiquity, unanimity, unavailability, unfamiliarity, uniformity, unity, universality, university, unpopularity, unpredictability, unreality, unreliability, uppity, utility, validity, vanity, variability, variety, varsity, velocity, velvety, venality, veracity, Verity, versatility, viability, vicinity, virginity, virility, virtuosity, viscosity, visibility, vitality, volatility, voracity, vulgarity, vulnerability. |
| 4 | -n u t ē | affinity, alkalinity, amenity, community, dignity, disunity, divinity, eternity, femininity, fraternity, humanity, immunity, impunity, indemnity, indignity, infinity, inhumanity, insanity, masculinity, maternity, modernity, obscenity, opportunity, paternity, profanity, salinity, sanity, serenity, solemnity, Trinity, unity, vanity, vicinity, virginity. |
| 3 | -u t ē | ability, abnormality, absurdity, acceptability, accessibility, accountability, acidity, activity, actuality, acuity, adaptability, admissibility, adversity, advisability, affordability, aggressivity, agility, alacrity, ambiguity, amiability, amity, analyticity, animosity, annuity, anonymity, antiquity, anxiety, applicability, atrocity, audacity, austerity, authenticity, authority, availability, banality, barbarity, believability, bestiality, biodiversity, bisexuality, brevity, brutality, calamity, capability, capacity, captivity, causality, cavity, celebrity, centrality, charity, chastity, civility, clarity, collegiality, commodity, commonality, comparability, compatibility, complexity, complicity, comprehensibility, conditionality, conductivity, confidentiality, conformity, congeniality, congruity, connectivity, constitutionality, continuity, convertibility, creativity, credibility, credulity, criminality, criticality, crotchety, culpability, curiosity, cyclicality, debility, deductibility, deformity, deity, deniability, density, dependability, depravity, deputy, desirability, dexterity, dimensionality, disability, discontinuity, disparity, dissimilarity, diversity, docility, domesticity, duality, ductility, duplicity, durability, eccentricity, elasticity, electability, electricity, eligibility, enforceability, enmity, enormity, entity, equality, equanimity, equity, ethnicity, eventuality, exclusivity, expressivity, extraterritoriality, extremity, facility, fallibility, falsity, familiarity, fatality, feasibility, Felicity, ferocity, fertility, festivity, fidelity, finality, flammability, flexibility, fluidity, formality, fragility, frivolity, frugality, functionality, futility, generality, generosity, geniality, gentility, gratuity, gravity, gullibility, heredity, heterogeneity, heterosexuality, hilarity, homogeneity, homosexuality, hospitality, hostility, humidity, humility, hyperactivity, hypersensitivity, identity, illegality, illiquidity, immaturity, immobility, immorality, immortality, impartiality, impersonality, impossibility, impropriety, impurity, inability, inaccessibility, inactivity, incapacity, incivility, incompatibility, incongruity, incredulity, indestructibility, individuality, inequality, inequity, inevitability, infallibility, inferiority, infertility, infidelity, infirmity, inflexibility, informality, ingenuity, insecurity, insensitivity, instability, instrumentality, insularity, integrity, intensity, invincibility, invisibility, invulnerability, irrationality, irregularity, irresponsibility, irritability, laity, laxity, legality, legibility, lethality, levity, liability, liberality, liquidity, lividity, locality, longevity, majority, malleability, maneuverability, marketability, materiality, maturity, mediocrity, mendacity, mentality, minority, miscibility, mobility, modality, monstrosity, morality, morbidity, mortality, motility, multiplicity, municipality, musicality, mutuality, nationality, nativity, necessity, negativity, neutrality, nobility, Nonconformity, nonentity, nonutility, normality, notoriety, nudity, obesity, objectivity, obscurity, oddity, opacity, originality, overcapacity, oversensitivity, palatability, parity, partiality, particularity, passivity, paucity, peculiarity, permeability, perpetuity, perplexity, personality, perversity, piety, plausibility, plurality, polarity, polity, pomposity, popularity, portability, possibility, posterity, practicality, predictability, principality, priority, probability, probity, proclivity, productivity, profitability, progressivity, promiscuity, propensity, proportionality, propriety, prosperity, proximity, publicity, punctuality, purity, quality, radioactivity, rapidity, rarity, rationality, reactivity, readability, reality, receptivity, reciprocity, reflexivity, regularity, relativity, reliability, religiosity, respectability, responsibility, retroactivity, rickety, rigidity, sanctity, scarcity, seasonality, security, selectivity, senility, seniority, sensibility, sensitivity, sensuality, sentimentality, serendipity, severity, sexuality, similarity, simplicity, sincerity, sobriety, society, solidarity, solidity, sorority, speciality, specificity, spirituality, spontaneity, stability, sterility, stupidity, subjectivity, suitability, superconductivity, superfluidity, superiority, supermajority, surety, survivability, susceptibility, sustainability, technicality, temerity, tenacity, theatricality, timidity, tonality, totality, toxicity, tranquility, transferability, triviality, turbidity, ubiquity, unanimity, unavailability, unfamiliarity, uniformity, universality, university, unpopularity, unpredictability, unreality, unreliability, uppity, utility, validity, variability, variety, varsity, velocity, velvety, venality, veracity, Verity, versatility, viability, virility, virtuosity, viscosity, visibility, vitality, volatility, voracity, vulgarity, vulnerability. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-n-q-t-t-u-y" | |
-2 letters: quaint, quinta, yanqui. | |
-3 letters: aunty, natty, nitty, nutty, quant, quint, taint, taunt, titan, unity. | |
-4 letters: anti, aunt, ayin, quai, quay, quin, quit, tain, taut, tint, tiny, tuna, tyin, unai, unit, yuan. | |
-5 letters: ain, ait, ani, ant, any, att, nay, nit, nut, qat, qua, tan, tat, tau, tin, tit, tui, tun, tut, uta, yin. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-n-q-t-t-u-y" | |
+1 letter: antiquity. | |
+2 letters: quaternity. | |
+3 letters: disquantity, tranquility. | |
+4 letters: tranquillity. | |
+5 letters: equidistantly. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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