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  • 11quantity — /kwon ti tee/, n., pl. quantities. 1. a particular or indefinite amount of anything: a small quantity of milk; the ocean s vast quantity of fish. 2. an exact or specified amount or measure: Mix the ingredients in the quantities called for. 3. a… …

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  • 12Quantity Discount — An incentive offered to a buyer that results in a decreased cost per unit of goods or materials when purchased in greater numbers. A quantity discount is often offered by sellers to entice buyers to purchase in larger quantities. The seller is… …

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  • 13quantity — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Amount Nouns 1. quantity, magnitude, amplitude; numbers, amount; content, mass, bulk, weight; sum, aggregate; measurement; number, quantifier; multitude. See assemblage. 2. portion (see apportionment);… …

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  • 14Quantity sensitivity — In linguistics, quantity sensitivity refers to a certain quality of a prosodic stress system in which a closed syllable is assigned stress …

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  • 15quantity — noun (plural quantities) 1》 a certain amount or number.     ↘a considerable number or amount. 2》 the property of something that is measurable: wages depended on quantity of output, regardless of quality. 3》 Phonetics the perceived length of a… …

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  • 16certain services — In feudal and old English law, such services as were stinted (limited or defined) in quantity, and could not be exceeded on any pretense; as to pay a stated annual rent, or to plow such a field for three days. 2 Bl.Comm. 61 …

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  • 17certain services — In feudal and old English law, such services as were stinted (limited or defined) in quantity, and could not be exceeded on any pretense; as to pay a stated annual rent, or to plow such a field for three days. 2 Bl.Comm. 61 …

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  • 18certain services — Base services, stinted in quantity and not to be exceeded. See 2 Bl Comm 61 …

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  • 19Dimensionless quantity — In dimensional analysis, a dimensionless quantity or quantity of dimension one is a quantity without an associated physical dimension. It is thus a pure number, and as such always has a dimension of 1.[1] Dimensionless quantities are widely used… …

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  • 20unknown quantity — {n.} Someone or something whose value and importance are not known, especially in a certain situation, time or place; a new and untested person or thing. * /What we would find if we could fly to the moon is an unknown quantity./ * /The new player …

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