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quantity
Part of speech: NounThat property of anything that enables it to be increased or reduced; any uncertain bulk, weight, or number; a large portion, sum, or mass; the sound given to a syllable, as long or short; anything that can be increased, divided, or measured.
Usage examples "quantity":- Emotion as an international quantity is dead. - "The Last Shot", Frederick Palmer.
- Some men died soon after getting on shore, from taking too large a quantity of spirits. - "Narratives of Shipwrecks of the Royal Navy; between 1793 and 1849", William O. S. Gilly.
- My dear boy, said he suddenly turning toward his friend, I have a quantity of useless things, I have now in my desk a- a hundred pounds- that I don't know what to do with. - "Stories of Authors, British and American", Edwin Watts Chubb.