quantity

Roget category 25

1. Words expressing abstract relations
› 1.3. Quantity
›› 1.3.1. Simple quantity

#25. [Absolute quantity.] Quantity

noun

quantity, magnitude — size etc. (dimensions) 192 — amplitude, magnitude, mass, amount, sum, quantum, measure, substance, strength, force.
[Science of quantity.] mathematics, mathesis^†.
[Logic.] category, general conception, universal predicament.
[Definite or finite quantity.] armful, handful, mouthful, spoonful, capful — stock, batch, lot, dose — yaffle^†.

verb

quantify, measure, fix, estimate, determine, quantitate, enumerate.

adjective

quantitative, some, any, aught, more or less, a few.

adverb

to the tune of, all of, a full, the sum of, fully, exactly, precisely.

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