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• quantity   /ˈkwɒntəti/ DJ   /ˈkwɑːn-/ DJ US   /'kwɑntətɪ/ KK US
  • noun
    • Irregular:
      -ies plural
    • 数量；数额；数目 an amount or a number of somethingcountable uncountable
      • 大量／小量的… a large/small quantity of something
      • 大量的食物 enormous/vast/huge quantities of food
      • 可以大批廉价生产的产品 a product that is cheap to produce in large quantities
      • 这东西能不能足量供应？ Is it available in sufficient quantity?
    • 量；数量 the measurement of something by saying how much of it there isuncountable
      • 这份资料在质量和数量上都很有限。 The data is limited in terms of both quality and quantity.
    • 大量；大批；众多；大宗 a large amount or number of somethingcountable uncountable
      • 警察在他家发现了大量毒品。 The police found a quantity of drugs at his home.
      • 大宗购物比较便宜。 It's cheaper to buy goods in quantity.
      • 仅已有的信息量就大得令我不知所措。 I was overwhelmed by the sheer quantity of information available.
    • See also:
      an unknown quantity

English dictionary

• quan·ti·ty
  • The amount or number of a material or immaterial thing not usually estimated by spatial measurement
  • The property of a proposition of being universal or particular
  • A certain, usually specified, amount or number of something

Related phrases

• attrition inventory quantity
  【军】损耗总量
• quantity surveyor
  （建筑）估算师，估算员
• current run quantity
  现有运转数量
• economic order quantity
  经济订货批量 (简称 EOQ, 是固定订货批量模型的一种, 可以用来确定企业一次订货的数量. 当企业按照经济订货批量来订货时, 可实现订货成本和储存成本之和最小化)
• an unknown quantity
  未知数（指尚不清楚，有待证实的人或事物）
• fixed order quantity
  固定订货批量 (一种批量订货方法, 每次订货时都采用预先确定的同样数量)
• quantity allocation
  已分配量
• quantity at location
  仓位数量
• quantity backorder
  欠交数量
• quantity completion
  完成数量

Synonyms

• noun: amount, number, quantum, deal, measure, volume

Web translations

Usage examples

• Kingston, an 18-year House veteran who has had his own turns in the GOP leadership, said Boehner "is a known quantity. He's not going to be saying anything stupid or doing anything stupid."
  Sep 5, 2010 -  Jack Kingston -  The Associated Press
• "As an interim ad-hoc measure, pending a final decision on the issue, the government is releasing an additional quantity of 2.5 million tonnes of wheat and rice to the states at a BPL price for next six months," said Union Agriculture Minister...
  Sep 2, 2010 -  Sharad Pawar -  Sify
• "There's just more of it today. There's more of it in quantity, but the execution's the same. In that day, when you only had a newspaper to get your information, that would have been the extent of it. But it doesn't seem to have changed at all,"...
  Sep 17, 2007 -  Brad Pitt -  Guardian Unlimited

Web definitions

• • measure: how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify
    
  wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
• • an adequate or large amount; "he had a quantity of ammunition"
    
  wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
• • the concept that something has a magnitude and can be represented in mathematical expressions by a constant or a variable
    
  wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn