quantite
Middle English
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French quantité, from Latin quantitās.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kwantiˈteː/, /ˈkwantiteː/
Noun
quantite (plural quantites)
- Number, quantity or amount (either discrete or continuous):
- The amount that something can contain or hold; volume.
- A portion or part of a measured or reckoned value.
- A specified piece or quantity of a greater whole or unit.
- Degree, extent; the relative amount or significance of something.
- Amount or length of time (that something occurs or happens over]
- Dimension; how big or large something is (in two or three dimensions)
- (rare) The main or central portion of a thing.
- (rare) The frequency of sound; pitch.
Descendants
- English: quantity
References
- “quantitẹ̄, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-11-12.
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