Quantity
Quantity is a property that can exist as a magnitude or multitude. Quantities can be compared in terms of "more", "less" or "equal", or by assigning a numerical value in terms of a unit of measurement. Quantity is among the basic classes of things along with quality, substance, change, and relation. Being a fundamental term, quantity is used to refer to any type of quantitative properties or attributes of things. Some quantities are such by their inner nature (as number), while others are functioning as states (properties, dimensions, attributes) of things such as heavy and light, long and short, broad and narrow, small and great, or much and little. A small quantity is sometimes referred to as a quantulum.
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... Look up quantity or few in Wiktionary, the free dictionary ... Some further examples of quantities are 1.76 litres (liters) of milk, a continuous quantity 2πr metres, where r is the length of a radius of a circle ...
... Total revenue is the total receipts of a firm from the sale of any given quantity of a product ... It can be calculated as the selling price of the firm's product times the quantity sold, i.e ... total revenue = price × quantity, or letting TR be the total revenue function where Q is the quantity of output sold, and P(Q) is the inverse demand function (the demand ...
... Quantity surveyors work for private and commercial clients, main contractors and subcontractors in the construction industry ... In the UK, not all quantity surveyors are necessarily chartered surveyors some may be chartered through the Chartered Institute of Building ("CIOB") ... Quantity surveyors sometimes act as project managers of a construction site ...
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More definitions of "quantity":
- (noun): An adequate or large amount.
Example: "He had a quantity of ammunition"
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