quan·ti·ty 
(kwŏntĭ-tē)
(kwŏntĭ-tē)n. pl. quan·ti·ties
1.
a. A specified or indefinite number or amount: shipped a large quantity of books; sells quantities of paper to publishers.
b. A considerable amount or number: sells drugs wholesale and in quantity.
c. An exact amount or number: the quantity of material recycled in a month.
2. The measurable or countable property or aspect of things: Arithmetic deals with quantity.
3. Mathematics Something that serves as the object of an operation.
4.
a. Linguistics The relative amount of time needed to pronounce a vowel, consonant, or syllable.
b. The duration of a syllable in quantitative verse.
5. Logic The exact character of a proposition in reference to its universality, singularity, or particularity.
[Middle English quantite, from Old French, from Latin quantitās, quantitāt-, from quantus, how great; see kwo- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.]
- compacter
- compaction
- compactly
- compactness
- compactor
- compadre
- companion
- companion
- companionable
- companionableness
- companionably
- companion animal
- companionate
- companionate marriage
- companion cell
- companion planting
- companionship
- companionway
- company
- company-grade officer
- company man
- company town
- company woman
- comparability
- comparable