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noun A specified or indefinite number or amount.
noun A considerable amount or number: sells drugs wholesale and in quantity.
noun An exact amount or number.

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The being so much in measure or extent; technically, the intrinsic mode by virtue of which a thing is more or less than another; a system of relationship by virtue of which one thing is said to be more or less than another; magnitude. Thy zodiak of thin Astralabie is shapen as a compass wich that contienith a large brede, as aftur the quantite of thin astralabie. Chaucer, Astrolabe, i. 21. Quantity and number differ only in thought (ratione) from that which has quantity and is numbered. Descartes, Prin. of Philos. (tr. by Veitch), ii. § 8. The science of number is founded on the hypothesis of the distinctness of things; the science of quantity is founded on the totally different hypothesis of continuity. W. K. Clifford, Lectures, I. 337.
In the concrete, an object regarded as more or less; a quantum; any amount, magnitude, or aggregate, in a concrete sense: as, a quantity of water: sometimes erroneously used to denote that which should be enumerated rather than measured: as, a quantity of people. Any perfectly regular system of objects whose relations are definable in advance, and capable of construction in the imagination, forms a system of quantity capable of being dealt with by mathematical reasoning. The quantities of the mathematician, being constructed according to a definition laid down in advance, are imaginary, and in that sense abstract; but as being objects of the imagination, and not merely of the discursive reason, they are concrete. Mathematical quantities are either discrete (as whole numbers) or continuous. They may also be multiple, as vectors. Thei don rightfulle Iuggementes in every cause, bothe of riche and pore, smale and grete, aftre the quantytee of the trespas that is mys don. Mandeville, Travels, p. 287. Forty thousand brothers Could not, with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum. Shak., Hamlet, v. 1. 293. There is a farre greater quantity of buildings in this [Exchange] then in ours. Coryat, Crudities, I. 212. Where the ground is seen burning continually about the quantity of an acre. Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 19. Heat, considered with respect to its power of warming things and changing their state, is a quantity strictly capable of measurement, and not subject to any variations in quality or in kind. Clerk Maxwell, Heat, p. 57.
A large or considerable amount. Warm antiscorbutical plants taken in quantities will occasion stinking breath. Arbuthnot, Aliments, vi. 7, § 2.

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A general question here would be to determine the asymptotics of the quantity is the number of lattice points in V in the ball TB of radius T. Thanks to a classical theorem of Borel and Harish-Chandra, it is known in the above setting that the integer points of V split as the finite union of orbits of the discrete group. — What's new
To increase this quantity is a particularly intricate task, especially as taking care of one benchmark can damage another (e.g. a rise in pensions pushes up inflation). — open Democracy News Analysis - Comments
The limitation of the quantity was then of primary and fundamental importance. — Mises Dailies
If you have a non-episodic blog, word quantity is post quality. — Design daily news
In all cases we have a system with a quantity which is optimized for one of many possible configurations, and the configuration optimal in this regard is the one realized in nature. — Backreaction

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Middle English quantite, from Old French, from Latin quantitās, quantitāt-, from quantus, how great; see k^wo- in Indo-European roots.

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from Middle English quantitee, quantite, from Old French quantite, French quantité = Spanish cantidad = Portuguese quantidade = Italian quantità, from Latin quantita(t-)s, relative greatness or extent (transitive Greek ποσότης), from quantus, how much, how many, from quam, how, in what manner, from qui, who = English who: see who, what, how.

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