quantity, quantite, quantitee, quantitie

[Fr. quant ité, from Latin quantitatem, acc us. of quant it as, from quant us = how much, how great; Sp. cuantidad, cantidad; Ital. quant ità.] IMG:content-0048.png:[blocks in formation] 2. Any amount, bulk, ma , or indeterminate weight or measure; as, a quantity of earth, a quan tity of iron, a quantity of heat, . Quantity is not applied to things considered as individuals or beings, as men, houses, horses, ., in speaking of which we use the terms number or multitude . 3. A large sum, number, ma , or portion. "Among the most useful plants that we grow in quan . tity are anemones."- Field , March 13, 1886. 4. A part, a portion, espec. a small portion; anything very little or diminutive. "If I were sawed into quantities , I should make four dozen of such."- Shakesp .: Henry IV., Pt . II., v. 1. 5. Extent. 6. Correspondent degree; proportion. "Things base and vile holding no quantity ." Shakesp.: Midsummer Night's Dream, i. 1. II. Technically : 1. Gram. & Prosody : The measure of a syllable or the time in which it is pronounced; the metrical value of syllables as regards length or weight in their pronunciation. "Greek and Latin verse consists of the number and quantity of syllables." -Daniel: Defense of Rhyme. 2. Logic : The extent to which the predicate in a proposition is a erted of the subject. "Another division of propositions is according to their quality [or extent]. If the predicate is said of the whole of the subject, the proposition is Universal; if of part of it only, the proposition is Particular (or partial): e. g., Britain is an island, All tyrants are miserable, No miser is rich, are Universal propositions, and their subjects are therefore said to be distributed, being understood to stand, each, for the whole of its Significates; but, Some islands are fertile, All tyrants are not a a inated, are Particular, and their subjects, consequently, not distributed, being taken to stand for a part only of their Significates." Whately: Logic , bk. ii., ch. ii., § 1. 3. Math .: Anything that can be increased, dim in ished, and measured. Thus, number is a quantity; time, space, weight, ., are also quantities. In Mathematics, quantities are represented by symbols (q. v.), and for convenience these symbols them selves are called quantities. [IRRATIONAL-EXPRESSION.] In algebra, quantities are distinguished as known and unknown [ALGEBRA], real and imagi nary, constant and variable, rational and irra tional. Real quantities are those which do not involve any operation impo ible to perform; variable quantities are those which admit of an infinite number of values in the same expre ion; rational chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; term, as a or b ; a compound quantity by two or more terms connected by the signs + (plus) or (minus). Quantities which have the sign + prefixed to them are called positive or affirmative; those to which the sign is prefixed are called negative. Similar quantities are such as consist of the same letters, and the same powers of the letters, as abc , -2abc,+ 4abc, . [CONSTANT, a., IMAGINARY, IRRATIONAL.] (1) Quantity of estate: Law : The time during which the right of enjoyment of an estate continues. (2) Quantity of matter: Its ma , as determined by its weight or by its momentum under a given velocity. (3) Quantity of motion: The same as MOMENTUM (q. v.). *(4) Quantity and tantity: Logic: The translation of quant it as and tantitas , abstract nouns formed from Latin quant us =how much? and tantus =so much, and used by James Mill ( Elem . Human Mind (ed. 1829), ii. 50) as correlatives. quân-tiv-a-lençe, subst. [Latin quant us =how much, and valens, pr. par. of valeo =to be worth.1 [ATOMICITY.]