What is amount?

  • (noun): A quantity obtained by addition.
    Synonyms: sum, total
    See also — Additional definitions below

Some articles on amount:

Nisab
... In Sharia (Islamic Law) niṣāb (نِصاب) is the amount one's net worth must exceed for the Muslim owner to be obligated to give zakat ... Zakat is then determined based on the amount of wealth acquired the greater the assets, the greater the tax ... With today's weights, the zakāt-payable amount is 85 grams of gold or 595 g silver ...
Loan
... among other things, the principal amount, interest rate, and date of repayment ... In a loan, the borrower initially receives or borrows an amount of money, called the principal, from the lender, and is obligated to pay back or ... an annuity, each installment is the same amount ...
Tax Brackets in South Africa - Tax Brackets For The 2012 Year of Assessment
... every Rand R150,001–R235,000 R27,000 plus 25% of the amount above R150,000 R235,001–R325,000 R48,250 plus 30% of the amount above R235,000 R325,001–R455,000 R75,250 plus 35 ...
United States Groundwater Law - Riparian Rights
... The amount of groundwater right is based on the size of the surface area where each landowner gets a corresponding amount of the available water ... Once adjudicated, the maximum amount of the water right is set, but the right can be decreased if the total amount of available water decreases as is likely during a drought ... Water is a rechargeable resource and so the amount of the water right may be reduced, marketing the groundwater right can be difficult ...
Why Use The Imprest System
... In this example the maximum amount of petty cash that can be issued (spent) is $100 ... with what you spend, in this case $90 In a non imprest system where a fixed amount is issued every month e.g ... issued has been documented because when money is all spent a check for a fixed amount is issued ...

More definitions of "amount":

  • (noun): How much of something is available.
    Example: "An adequate amount of food for four people"
  • (noun): How much there is of something that you can quantify.
    Synonyms: measure, quantity
  • (verb): Be tantamount or equivalent to.
    Example: "Her action amounted to a rebellion"
  • (verb): Develop into.
    Example: "This idea will never amount to anything"
    Synonyms: come, add up

Famous quotes containing the word amount:

    In truth, a mature man who uses hair-oil, unless medicinally, that man has probably got a quoggy spot in him somewhere. As a general rule, he can’t amount to much in his totality.
    Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
    Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)

    Poetry is the most direct and simple means of expressing oneself in words: the most primitive nations have poetry, but only quite well developed civilizations can produce good prose. So don’t think of poetry as a perverse and unnatural way of distorting ordinary prose statements: prose is a much less natural way of speaking than poetry is. If you listen to small children, and to the amount of chanting and singsong in their speech, you’ll see what I mean.
    Northrop Frye (1912–1991)