DEFINITE QUANTITY Synonyms

• the point or degree to which something extends

• the distance or area or volume over which something extends

• the property of relative size or extent (whether large or small)

• a number assigned to the ratio of two quantities; two quantities are of the same order of magnitude if one is less than 10 times as large as the other; the number of magnitudes that the quantities differ is specified to within a power of 10

• relative importance

• (Roman Catholic Church and Protestant Churches) the celebration of the Eucharist

• the property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field

• a musical setting for a Mass

• (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent

• a sequence of prayers constituting the Christian Eucharistic rite

• an ill-structured collection of similar things (objects or people)

• a body of matter without definite shape

• the common people generally

• the property of something that is great in magnitude

• formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole

• join together into a mass or collect or form a mass

• any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal

• how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify

• a statute in draft before it becomes law

• the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule

• a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated

• (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse

• musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats

• measuring instrument having a sequence of marks at regular intervals; used as a reference in making measurements

• a container of some standard capacity that is used to obtain fixed amounts of a substance

• determine the measurements of something or somebody, take measurements of

• express as a number or measure or quantity

• have certain dimensions

• evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of

• something determined in relation to something that includes it

• something less than the whole of a human artifact

• the allotment of some amount by dividing something

• assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group

• your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)

• money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage

• an individual quantity of food or drink taken as part of a meal

• give out

• how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify

• an adequate or large amount

• the concept that something has a magnitude and can be represented in mathematical expressions by a constant or a variable

• a discrete amount of something that is analogous to the quantities in quantum theory

• (physics) the smallest discrete quantity of some physical property that a system can possess (according to quantum theory)

• the physical magnitude of something (how big it is)

• the property resulting from being one of a series of graduated measurements (as of clothing)

• any glutinous material used to fill pores in surfaces or to stiffen fabrics

• the actual state of affairs

• a large magnitude

• (used in combination) sized

• cover or stiffen or glaze a porous material with size or sizing (a glutinous substance)

• sort according to size

• make to a size; bring to a suitable size

• the whole amount

• a quantity obtained by the addition of a group of numbers

• constituting the full quantity or extent; complete

• complete in extent or degree and in every particular

• add up in number or quantity

• determine the sum of

• damage beyond the point of repair

• the amount of 3-dimensional space occupied by an object

• the property of something that is great in magnitude

• physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together

• a publication that is one of a set of several similar publications

• a relative amount

• the magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction)