Quantity

English

Etymology

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Pronunciation

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Noun

1. A fundamental, generic term used when referring to the measurement (count, amount) of a scalar, vector, number of items or to some other way of denominating the value of a collection or group of items.

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2. An indefinite amount of something.

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3. A specific measured amount.

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4. A considerable measure or amount.

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5. Template:Lb Property of a phenomenon, body, or substance, where the property has a magnitude that can be expressed as number and a reference.
6. Template:Lb Indicates that the entire preceding expression is henceforth considered a single object.

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Usage notes

• In mathematics, used to unambiguously orate mathematical equations; it is extremely rare in print, since there is no need for it there.

Translations

• Albanian: Template:T+
• Arabic: Template:T, Template:T+, Template:T+
• Armenian: Template:T+
• Asturian: Template:T
• Avar: Template:T
• Azerbaijani: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Bashkir: Template:T, Template:T
• Basque: Template:T
• Belarusian: Template:T+
• Bengali: Template:T+
• Bulgarian: Template:T+
• Burmese: Template:T+
• Catalan: Template:T+
• Chinese:

  Hokkien: Template:T+

  Mandarin: Template:T+, Template:T+, Template:T+, Template:T+, Template:T+

• Czech: Template:T+
• Danish: Template:T+
• Dutch: Template:T+, Template:Qualifier Template:T+
• Estonian: Template:T, Template:T
• Finnish: Template:T+
• French: Template:T+
• Galician: Template:T+
• Georgian: Template:T, Template:T
• German: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Greek: Template:T+

  Ancient: Template:T

• Hebrew: Template:T+
• Hindi: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Hungarian: Template:T+
• Icelandic: Template:T+
• Ido: Template:T+
• Indonesian: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Interlingua: Template:T
• Irish: Template:T
• Italian: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Japanese: Template:T+, Template:T+, Template:T+
• Kazakh: Template:T
• Khmer: Template:T+
• Korean: Template:T+, Template:T+ Template:Qualifier, Template:T+, Template:T+
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: Template:T

• Kyrgyz: Template:T+
• Lao: Template:T+, Template:T
• Latin: Template:T
• Latvian: Template:T
• Lithuanian: Template:T+
• Macedonian: Template:T, Template:T, Template:T
• Malay: Template:T, Template:T
• Malayalam: Template:T+
• Maori: Template:T
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Template:T

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Template:T+

• Persian: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Polish: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Portuguese: Template:T+
• Romanian: Template:T+
• Russian: Template:T+
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Template:T, Template:T

  Roman: Template:T+, Template:T+

• Slovak: Template:T
• Slovene: Template:T+, Template:T
• Spanish: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Swedish: Template:T+
• Tajik: Template:T+, Template:T
• Tatar: Template:T+
• Telugu: Template:T+
• Thai: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Turkish: Template:T+
• Turkmen: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Ukrainian: Template:T+
• Urdu: Template:T
• Uyghur: Template:T, Template:T
• Uzbek: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Vietnamese: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Walloon: Template:T+
• Zazaki: Template:T

• Bulgarian: Template:T+
• Catalan: Template:T+
• Dutch: Template:T+
• Ewe: Template:T
• Finnish: Template:T+
• French: Template:T+
• Georgian: Template:T
• German: Template:T+
• Greek: Template:T+

  Ancient: Template:T

• Hebrew: Template:T+
• Ido: Template:T+
• Irish: Template:T
• Italian: Template:T+
• Latvian: Template:T
• Macedonian: Template:T
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Template:T+

  Nynorsk: Template:T

• Polish: Template:T+
• Portuguese: Template:T+
• Romanian: Template:T+
• Russian: Template:T+
• Serbo-Croatian: Template:T+
• Slovene: Template:T+
• Spanish: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Swedish: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Waray-Waray: Template:T, Template:T
• Zazaki: Template:T+, Template:T+
• ǃXóõ: Template:T Template:Qualifier, Template:T Template:Qualifier

• Bulgarian: Template:T+
• Catalan: Template:T+
• Dutch: Template:T+
• Estonian: Template:T+
• Ewe: Template:T
• Finnish: Template:T+
• Georgian: Template:T
• Greek: Template:T+
• Hebrew: Template:T+
• Irish: Template:T
• Latvian: Template:T
• Macedonian: Template:T
• Malayalam: Template:T+
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Template:T+, Template:T+

  Nynorsk: Template:T, Template:T

• Polish: Template:T+
• Portuguese: Template:T+
• Russian: Template:T+
• Slovene: Template:T+
• Spanish: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Swedish: Template:T+ Template:Qualifier, Template:T+ Template:Qualifier
• Zazaki: Template:T+
• ǃXóõ: Template:T

• Catalan: Template:T+
• Ewe: Template:T
• Finnish: Template:T, Template:T+
• Georgian: Template:T
• German: Template:T+
• Hebrew: Template:T+
• Latvian: Template:T
• Macedonian: Template:T, Template:T
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Template:T+, Template:T+

  Nynorsk: Template:T, Template:T

• Polish: Template:T+
• Portuguese: Template:T+
• Romanian: Template:T+, Template:T
• Russian: Template:T+
• Spanish: Template:T+, Template:T+

• Finnish: Template:T+
• German: Template:T
• Zazaki: Template:T

• Esperanto: Template:T+check
• Georgian: Template:T-check, Template:T-check
• Ido: Template:Qualifier Template:T-check
• Indonesian: Template:T+check
• Interlingua: Template:T-check
• Italian: Template:T+check
• Korean: Template:T+check
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: Template:T-check

• Latin: Template:T+check, Template:T-check, Template:T-check
• Malay: Template:T-check
• Volapük: Template:T+check

See also

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Further reading

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