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Same as kanun. 51. The boding cry of a raven. As ravenes qualm, or schrychynge of thise owl is. Chaucer , Troilus, v. 382. whante, a pole, stick, rod; cf. kent1.] 1. A walking-stick. [Prov. Eng.]-2. A pushing-pole with a flat board or cap at one end to prevent it IMG:content-1434.png:[blocks in formation] also, a jumping-pole, similarly fitted, used in marshes. The name is also given to the cap. [Prov. Eng.] 2. To cause pain or qualms. Solicitude discomposes the head, jealousy the heart; envy qualms on his bowels, prodigality on his purse. Gentleman Instructed, p. 560. ( Davies.) qualmiret (kwal'mīr), n. [A var. of quavemire, appar. simulating quaill, qualm.] Same as quagmire. Whosoeuer seketh it in ani other place, and goeth about to set it out of men's puddels and qualmires, and not out of the most pure and cleare fountaine itselfe. Bp. Gardiner , True Obedience, fol. 9. qualmish (kwä'mish), a . [ qualm + -ish1.] 1. Sick at the stomach; inclined to vomit; affected with nausea or sickly languor. I am qualmish at the smell of leek. IMG:content-1435.png:[blocks in formation] quamoclit (kwam'ō-klit), n. [Mex.] 1. The cypre -vine, Ipomæa Quamoclit.-2. [ cap.] [NL.] A section of the genus Ipomæa, including the cypre -vine, formerly regarded as a genus. quam proxime (kwam prok'si-mē). [L.: quam, as; proxime, most nearly, quantitative manner; with regard to quantity. quantitativene (kwon ́ti-ta-tiv-nes), n. The state or condition of being quantitative. In Geology, in Biology, in Psychology, most of the previsions are qualitative only; and where they are quantitative their quantitativene , never quite definite, is mostly very indefinite. H. Spencer , Study of Sociol., p. 45. quantitiveł (kwon ́ti-tiv), a. Same as quant i tative. [Rare.] Compounding and dividing bodies according to quant i tive parts. Sir K. Digby , Man's Soul, iii. quantitively (kwonʼti-tiv-li), adv. So as to be measured by quantity; quantitatively. quantity (kwon'ti-ti), n.; pl. quantities (-tiz). [ tude. The notions of quantity, and of the two most simple differences of quantative things, rarity and density. Sir K. Digby , Treatise of Bodies (1644), iv. quantic (kwon′tik), n . [ quant us , how great, how much (see quantity ), + -ic .] In math . , a rational integral homogeneous function of two or more variables. Quantics are cla ified according to their dimensions, as quadric , cubic , quartic , quintic , etc., denoting quantics of the second, third, fourth, fifth, etc., degrees. They are further distinguished as binary , ternary , quaternary , etc., according as they contain two, three, four, etc., variables. The word was introduced by Cayley in 1854.- Order of a quantic, the degree of a quantic.The equation of a quantic. See equation . quantical (kwon'ti-kal), a . Relating to quantics. quantification (kwon"ti-fi-kāʻshon), n. [ Des cartes , Prin. of Philos. (tr. by Veitch), ii. § 8. The science of number is founded on the hypothesis of the distinctne of things; the science of quantity is founded on the totally different hypothesis of continuity. W. K. Clifford , Lectures, I. 337. 2. In the concrete, an object regarded as more or le ; a quantum; any amount, magnitude, or aggregate, in a concrete sense: as, a quan tity 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, bot he of riche and pore, smale and grete, aftre the quantytee of the trespas that is mys don. Mandeville , Travels, p. 287. Forty you sand 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. quantity 3. A large or considerable amount. Warm antis cor but i cal plants taken in quantities will occasion stinking breath. Arbuthnot, Aliments, vi. 7, § 2. 41. A piece or part, especially a small portion; anything very little or diminutive. Away, thou rag, thou quantity , thou remnant. Shak ., T. of the S., iv. 3. 112. 5t. Proportion; correspondent degree. Things base and vile, holding no quantity , Love can transpose to form and dignity. Shak., M. N. D., i. 1. 232. 6. In anc. orthoëpy, orthoëpy, pros., and metrics, the relative time occupied in uttering a vowel or a syllable; that characteristic of a vowel or a syllable syllable by which it is distinguished distinguished as long or short; syllabic measure or time; prosodic length. In ancient Greek and Latin pronunciation a long vowel or syllable occupied nearly, or in deliberate enunciation fully, twice the time of a short vowel or syllable, and the grammarians accordingly a umed the average short vowel or syllable as the prosodic unit (mora), and taught that a long vowel or syllable was equal to two short ones. Some vowels or syllables varied in time between these two limits and were called common, admitting of metrical use as either longs or shorts. In certain situations (elision, ecthlipsis) vowels were much shorter in pronunciation than the average short, and, although audible, were disregarded in metrical measurement. A syllable was long either by nature or by position (see long1, a., 5 (a)). In the English pronunciation of Latin and Greek, quantity in the proper sense is entirely disregarded, except in so far as the length of the penult affects the accent according to the Latin rule; and English writers use the phrase false quantity for a false accentuation. Thus, to pronounce vec - ti'gal vec'ti- gal is called a "false quantity," but to pronounce the a alike in păter and māter is not so designated. All composed in a metre for Catullus, All in quantity , careful of my motion. Tennyson , Experiments, Hendecasyllabics. 7. In logic, that respect in which universal and particular propositions differ. See prop osition, and logical quantity, below.-8. In elect., the amount of electricity which pa es through any section of a circuit in a unit of time: more exactly termed the strength of the cur rent. A battery is arranged for quantity when the positive poles of all the cells are connected and all the negative poles are connected, so that the current is the maximum when the external resistance is small. -Absolute quantity, quantity considered as belonging to an object in itself, without reference to any other.Auxiliary quantity. See auxiliary. - Broken quantity, discrete quantity. - Categorical quantityf, that accident which has parts outside of one another; the quantity of which Aristotle treats in his book of the Cate gories. Categories of quantity. See category, 1.— Commensurable quantities, quantities having a common measure. - Complex quantity, a multiple quantity, or one which requires two or more numbers to state it; especially, an imaginary quantity of the form A + Bi, -Constant quantities, in math., a quantity which remains invariably the same while others increase or de crease; a quantity which, though it may be indeterminate, is not studied in reference to its progre ive variation.- Continuous or continued quantity, a system of concatenated quantity which includes the limit of every convergent series of quantities it contains. See continuity, 2.- Corporeal quantity, quantity of space or spatial extension, as length, area, volume, etc.Definite quantity, in logic, the quantification of a proposition in a more definite way than by the distinction of "some" and "all." There are various systems of definite quantity. - Dimensive quantity. Same as cor poreal quantity. - Discrete quantity, quantity proceeding by discrete steps, belonging to a system such that its quantities are susceptible of being connected, one to one, with the whole or a part of the series of whole num -1. - Compound quantity. See compound1 . bers. The system of ordinal numbers is the most famil iar example of discrete quantity; another example is the system of ordinary vulgar fractions. - Di imilar quantities, quantities such that no one is a real multiple of another. Dual quantity, a system of quantity having only two values in any one direction, as in the Boolian algebra. Elliptic quantity, a system of quantity (as the quantity of angles) in which there are no real infinite distances, but in which any quantity on being sufficiently increased returns into itself: so called because the ellipse has no real point at infinity. - Extensive quantity. See extensive. - External or extrinsic quantity. See external. - Flowing quantity. See flowing. - Heterogeneous quantities. See heterogeneous. Hyperbolic quantity, a system of quantity containing such quantities that there are, in some directions at least, two different absolute limits, generally +∞and. Thus, if it were the property of a yardstick to shorten on receding from a fixed center, this might happen according to such a law that no finite number of layings down of the yardstick could carry the measurement beyond two limits in every, or in some, directions. Points lying beyond these, if such there were, would be at imaginary distances. Such measurement would make a system of hyperbolic quantity. Imaginary quantity. See imaginary. - Impo ible quantity. Same as imaginary quantity.-Improper quantity. Same as intensive quantity. Reid defines improper quantity as that which cannot be measured by its own kind - that is, everything not extension, duration, number, nor proportion. Incommensurable quantities. See incommensurable. – Indeterminate quantity. See indeterminate. - Inference of transposed quantity. See inference. Infinite quantity, a quantity infinitely greater than every measurable quan tity. See infinite. Infinitesimal quantity, a quantity infinitely le than every measurable quantity. See in finites i mal, n.-Intensive quantity. See intensive. 4893 Internal quantity. See internal. - Intrinsic quantity, the older name of intensive quantity. Irrational quantity, a quantity not expre ible by any whole number or fraction, but usually by means of a square or higher root of a rational quantity; in Euclid, however, by an irrational quantity is meant one incommensurable with the unit of the same kind. In this phrase, irrational [tr. Gr. ἄλογοs] means 'inexpre ible'; it does not mean 'absurd, though these quantities are called surds. Like quantities, quantities one of which multiplied by a scalar quantity gives the other. - Limited quantity, a system of quantities all finite, and having an absolute maximum and minimum in every direction. - Logical quantity, that character by virtue of which one quar tor quantity, the quantity which belongs to a right line considered as having direction as well as length, but which is equal for all parallel lines of equal length; any quantity capable of representation by a directed right line, without considering its position in space; a quantity whose square is a negative scalar. - Virtual quantity. Same as inten sive quantity. quantity-culture (kwon ́ti-ti-kultūr), n. See the quotation Quantity - culture . means a culture, whether pure or not, where a great quantity or bulk of bacteria are growing. Hueppe , Bacteriological Investigations (trans.), p. 5.