quantity 
3. A large or considerable amount. 
Warm antiscorbntical plants taken in quantities will oc- 
casion stinking breath. Arbuthnot, Aliments, vi. 7, 2. 
4f. A piece or part, especially a small por- 
tion ; anything very little or diminutive. 
Awav, thou rag, thou quantity, thou remnant. 
Shak.,T. of the S., iv. 3. 112. 
5f. Proportion ; correspondent degree. 
Things base and vile, holding no quantity, 
Love can transpose to form and dignity. 
Shak., II. N. D., i. 1. 232. 
6. In anc. orthoepy, pros., and metrics, the rela- 
tive time occupied in uttering a vowel or a syl- 
lable ; that characteristic of a vowel or a syllable 
by which it is distinguished as long or short ; 
syllabic measure or time ; prosodic length. In 
ancient Greek and Latin pronunciation a long vowel or 
syllable occupied nearly, or in deliberate enunciation 
fully, twice the time of a short vowel or syllable, and the 
grammarians accordingly assumed the average short vowel 
or syllable as the prosodic unit (mora), and taught that a 
long vowel or syllable was equal to two short ones. Some 
vowels or syllables varied in time between these two lim- 
its and were called common, admitting of metrical use as 
either longs or shorts. In certain situations (elision, ec- 
thlipsis) vowels were much shorter in pronunciation than 
the average short, and, although audible, were disregarded 
in metrical measurement. A syllable was long either by 
nature or by position (see long*, a., 5 (a)). In the English 
pronunciation of Latin and Greek, quantity in the proper 
sense is entirely disregarded, except in so far as the length 
of the penult affects the accent according to the Latin 
rule ; and English writers use the phrase false quantity 
for a false accentuation. Thus, to pronounce vec-tl'gal 
mc'ti-gal is called a "false quantity," but to pronounce the 
a alike in pater and mater is not so designated. 
All composed in a metre for Catullus, 
All in quantity, careful of my motion. 
Tennyson, Experiments, Ilendecasyllabics. 
7. In logic, that respect in which universal 
and particular propositions differ. See prop- 
osition, smtllogical quantity, \)Q]OV?, 8. \\idect., 
the amount of electricity which passes through 
any section of a circuit in a unit of time: 
more exactly termed the strength of tJie cur- 
rent. A battery is arranged for quantity when the pos- 
itive poles of all the cells are connected and all the 
negative poles are connected, so that the current is 
the maximum when the external resistance is small. 
Absolute quantity, quantity considered as belong- 
ing to an object in itself, without reference to any other. 
Auxiliary quantity. See auxiliary. Broken quan- 
tity, discrete quantity. Categorical quantity!, that 
accident which has parts outside of one another ; the 
quantity of which Aristotle treats in his book of the Cate- 
gories. Categories of quantity. See category, 1. 
Commensurable quantities, quantities having a com- 
mon measure. Complex quantity, a multiple quantity, 
or one which requires two or more numbers to state it ; 
especially, an imaginary quantity of the form A + Bi, 
where i' = 1. Compound quantity. See compoundi. 
Constant quantities, in math., a quantity which re- 
mains invariably the same while others increase or de- 
crease ; a quantity which, though it may be indetermi- 
nate, is not studied in reference to its progressive varia- 
tion. Continuous or continued quantity, a system 
of concatenated quantity which includes the limit of 
every convergent series of quantities it contains. See 
continuity, 2. Corporeal quantity, quantity of space 
or spatial extension, as length, area, volume, etc. 
Definite quantity, in logic, the quantification of a 
proposition in a more definite way than by the distinc- 
tion of "some" and "all." There are various systems of 
definite quantity. Dimensive quantity. Same as cor- 
poreal quantity. Discrete quantity, quantity proceed- 
ing by discrete steps, belonging to a system such that 
its quantities are susceptible of being connected, one to 
one, with the whole or a part of the series of whole num- 
bers. The system of ordinal numbers is the most famil- 
iar example of discrete quantity ; another example is the 
system of ordinary vulgar fractions. Dissimilar quan- 
tities, quantities such that no one is a real multiple of 
another. Dual quantity, a system of quantity having 
only two values in any one direction, as in the Boolian 
algebra. Elliptic quantity, a system of quantity (as 
the quantity of angles) in which there are no real infinite 
distances, but in which any quantity on being sufficient- 
ly increased returns into itself : so called because the 
ellipse has no real point at infinity. Extensive quan- 
tity. See extensive. External or extrinsic quan- 
tity. See external. Flowing quantity. See flouring. 
Heterogeneous quantities. See heterogeneous. 
Hyperbolic quantity, a system of quantity containing 
such quantities that there are, in some directions at least, 
two dilferentabsolutelimits, generally +ao and oo. Thus, 
if it were the property of a yardstick to shorten on reced- 
ing from a fixed center, this might happen according to 
such a law that no finite number of layings down of the 
yardstick could carry the measurement beyond two limits 
in every, or in some, directions. Points lying beyond these, 
if such there were, would be at imaginary distances. Such 
measurement would make a system of hyperbolic quan- 
tity. Imaginary quantity. See imaginary. Impos- 
sible quantity. Same as imaginary quantity. Im- 
nper quantity. Same as intensive quantity. Reid 
oes improper quantity as that which cannot be mea- 
sured by its own kind that is, everything not extension, 
duration, number, nor proportion. Incommensurable 
quantities. See incommensurable. Indeterminate 
quantity. See indeterminate. Inference of trans- 
posed quantity. See inference. Infinite quantity, 
a quantity infinitely greater than every measurable quan- 
tity. See infinite. Infinitesimal quantity, a quantity 
infinitely less than every measurable quantity. See in- 
finitesimal, n. Intensive quantity. See intensive. 
4803 
quar 
tor quantity, the quantity which belongs to a right line 
considered as having direction as well as length, but which 
is equal fur all parallel lines of equal length; any quantity 
capable of representation by a directed right line, without 
considering its position in space; a quantity whose square 
isa negative scalar. - Virtual quantity. Same as i<n- 
siee quantity. 
Internal quantity. See internal. Intrinsic quan- 
tity, the older name of intensive quantity. Irrational 
quantity, a quantity not expressible by any whole num- 
ber or fraction, but usually by means of a square or higher 
root of a rational quantity; in Euclid, however, by an ir- 
rational quantity is meant one incommensurable with 
the unit of the same kind. In this phrase, irrational nee quantity. 
[tr. Gr. oAoyo] means 'inexpressible'; it does not mean quantity-Culture (kwon'tj-tl-kul'tur), . See 
'absurd,' though these quantities are called surds. Like the quotation. 
Quantities uuantities one of which multiplied by a 
sc'iHr iiii-intity gives the other Limited quantity a Quantity-culture . . . means a culture, whether pure or 
system of quantities all finite,' and having an absolute not, where a great quantity or bulk of bacteria are grow- 
maximum and minimum In every direction.- Logical Ing- Heppe, Bacteriological Investigations (trans.), p. 5. 
See/iwe 2 . 
quan- 
tiie'term^s'predicabie of all the subjects of which another e r or value of an atom as compared with that 
is predicable, and of more besides ; or a relative character of t]l e hydrogen atom, which is taken as the 
?pptfbutt h lh?SS to wMdf^o^ru" ^SSfiSl ui.it of measure : same as valence. Also called 
(b) Quantity of comprehension or intension, or logical depth, (llontii'i ///. 
a relative character of a term such that when it is in ex- nuantivalency (kwon- tiv'a-len -si), n. [As 
cess the term has all the predicates of another term, and <,,,/.,,,,.,, / aPB _/>,A n Samp a<< minntiiin- 
more besides ; or a relative character of a proposition such f"> 
that when it is in excess the proposition is followed by all fence. 
the consequents of another proposition, and more besides, quantivalent (kwon-tiv a-lent), a. [< L. quan- 
(c) Quantity of science (Aquinas) or of information, a rela- / how much, how many (see quantity), + na- 
tive character of a concept such that when it is in ex- //'/ \ ,,, rt f (////*/ "ho trmi(y SPP, nnJitittt 1 
cess it has all the subjects and predicates of another con- ten(t-)8, ppl. 0* va. 
cept, and more besides, owing to its being in a mind which Chemically equivalent ; having the same satu- 
has more knowledge. Logical quantity is to be distin- rating or combining power Quantivalent ratio. 
guished from the quantity of a proposition. Mathemati- Same as oxygen ratio (which see. under ratio). 
cal quantities. See mathematical. Measurable quan- rmantoid(kwon'toid), n. [ A.squant(ic) + -oid.~\ 
tity, a system of quantities every one of which can he *,, . ,. ,, i ; lp i;, lfi o r differential eo.ua- 
staled to any desired degree of approximation by the sums J lt-hand side Ot a linear a 
of numerical multiples and submultiples of a finite num- tion whereof the right-hand side is zero. 
her of units ; a system of quantities embracing only finite quantong, . Same as quandang. 
-Natural quantity, quantity in a sense more concrete concrete quantity, 
than the mathematical ; quantity as joined to sensible The objects of outer sense are all quanta, in so far as they 
matter as when we speak of two different but equal quan- J , , are tne O g jecta of inner 8ense in 
titles of water or lead.-Negative quantity, a fictitious m P>^ g^J occunv time 
quantity in mathematics, in most cases inconceivable, but 
never involving any logical contradiction in itself, sup- 
posed to belong to a line of quantity continuing the line 
of ordinary or positive quantity below zero for an infinite 
distance. In many cases a negative quantity has an inter- 
pretation : thus, the negative of a dollar owned is a dollar 
owed, the negative of a temperature above zero is the same 
degree of temperature below zero, etc. Numeral quan- 
tity, number. Parabolic quantity, a quantity belong- 
ing to such a system of quantity that on increasing through 
infinity it immediately reappears on the negative side of 
zero. Such are Cartesian coordinates in ordinary geome- 
try. Permanent quantity. See permanent. Physi- 
cal quantity, any character in nature susceptible of more 
so far as they occupy time. 
K. Caird, Philos. of Kant, p. 411. 
never involving any louicui uuiiLrauiutiuii in HUGH, oup- > 
posed to belong to a line of quantity continuing [the line 2. A prescribed, proper, or sufficient amount. 
In judging the quantum of the church's portion, the 
world thinks every thing too much. 
Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), L 78. 
Quantum meruit, as much as one has merited or de- 
served ; the measure of recovery in law for services the 
price of which was not fixed by contract. Quantum suf- 
ficit, as much as is sufllcient. Abbreviated q. s., or quant, 
mff. Quantum valebat, as much as it was worth ; the 
measure of recovery in law for goods sold when no price 
was fixed by the contract. 
or less, such'as velocity, atomic weight, elasticity, heat, quantuplicityt (kwon-tu-plis'i-ti). n. [Irreg. 
electric strength of current, etc. Positive quantity, (after duplicity, tripUcity, etc.) < * quantuplex, < 
See poM'Kwe.-Predicamental quantity. See prcdica- L quantus, how much, + plicare, fold.] Same 
mental. Proper quantity. Same as extensive quantity. ; ;*,',"' W nlli 
-Prepositional quantity, the quantity of a proposition us qitomy. naiin>. ,.,,, 
in logic. See logical quantity, above. Protensive quan- quap 1 , quop 1 (kwop), V. i. [< ME. quappen = 
tity, duration in time. Quantity of action, the line- Norw. ATe;ij)a (pret.fa'app,kvopp), shake, quake, 
integral of the momentum. Quantity Of an eclipse. vri^V* nViti tn /M//JV> nunner HPIIPP latprm/flfi 
See E3p.-<Jaanttty Of curvature, the reciprocal of ' *U npw TCnil ' 
the radius of curvature.- Quantity of electricity, in quobl, q. v.] Same as OttaW. [Prov. Eng.] 
electrostatics, the amount of electricity upon a charged quap 2 t, n. Same as quab*, 2. 
body. It depends upon the capacity of the body, which, Q . R . fl h n d ( ouop-flsh, ed. 1611], 
in the case of a sphere, is proportional to the radius (see w ^"' h !/ ^ iSBm to man and man to him Florio 1598 
capacity), and upon the potential of the electricity. It is wlllcn ls P olf ' - 
numerically equal to tfie product of these two factors, quaquaversal (kwa-kwa-ver sal), a. . JNL. 
magnetism, the strength of a magnetic pole ; the force 
it exerts upon an equal pole at the unit distance. Quan- 
tity Of matter, the mass, as measured by weighing in a 
balance. Quantity of motion. See motion. Quesitive 
quantity, quantity expressed by an interrogative. numeral. 
multiplied by the unit of the same kind ; in Euclid, a com 
mensurable quantity. Real quantity, that kind of quan- 
tity which extends from zero to infinity, and from infinity 
through the whole series of negative values to zero again. 
Reciprocal of a quantity. See reciprocal. Recip- 
rocal quantities. See reciprocal Scalar quanti- 
ty, the ratio between two quantities of the same kind ; 
a real number. This is the definition of Hamilton, but quaquaVerSUS (kwa-kwa-ver sus), a 
in all directions from a central point or area: 
used chiefly in geology, as in the phrase qua- 
quaversal dip, a dipping in all directions from a 
central area. 
quaquaversally (kwa-kwa-ver'sal-i), adv. In 
a quaquaversal manner ; in all directions from 
a central point or area. 
The outer walls are stony ridges rising from 470 to 610 
feet above sea-level, and declining quaquaversally to the 
fertile plateau which, averaging 400 feet high, forms the 
body of the island. Encyc. Brit., XIV. 685. 
Same 
subsequent writers sometimes include imaginaries among as nuaquaversal. lircwster, Phil. Trans., 1852. 
scalars. Semi-inflnite quantity, a system of quantity 479 
which is limited at one end and extends to infinity in the *' ~l A . -, 
other. Similar quantities, quantities of the same quaqumert, A torm or quamver. 
kind whose ratios are numbers. Sophistic quantity, There Is a little fish in the form of a scorpion, and of the 
an imaginary quantity. Superinfinite quantity, a 8 j ze O f the fish quaquiner [tr. L. aranei piscis]. 
system of quantity which extends through infinity into ^ Bailey, tr. of Erasmus's Colloq., p. 393. (Damee.) 
a new region. Hyperbolic quantity is a special kind of . _ _ 
superinflnite quantity in which there are only two re- quar 1 !, [< ME. quar, quarre, etc. : see quar- 
gions. Syncategorematic quantity, quantity as ex- n/1.] An obsolete form of quarry*. 
pressed by a Syncategorematic word, or generally by any 
word not a noun. Terminal quantity, in logic, the 
quantity of a term, as opposed to the quantity of a proposi- 
tion. Transcendental quantity, intensive quantity as 
opposed to predicamental quantity : so called because dif- 
ferent from the quan tity treated by Aristotle under the cate- 
gory of quantity. Transposed quantity, logical quan- Of Machiavel 
tity transposed from one subject in the premise to another ^g w j, o i e c iti e [Paris], together with the suburbes, is 
in the conclusion. Unidimensional quantity, a sys- situate upoll a mane of free stone, 
tern of quantities all of the same kind, otherwise called Coryat, Crudities, I. 27. 
simple quantity. Unlike quantities, quantities which , . . 
have not a numerical ratio between diem.-Unlimited qUarM, V. t. [< qtiafl, H.J To block up. 
quantity, a system of quantities such that, any two A and But gg a miller, having ground his grist, 
B being given, a third C exists such that B lies between A Le ts down the flood-gates with a speedy fall, 
and C ; a system of quantity which has no absolute maxi- An( | quarring up the passage therewithal, 
mum nor minimum in anydirection. Unreal quantity, w. Brou-ne, Britannia's Pastorals. 
an imaginary quantity. Variable quantity, a quantity 
whose progressive changes are under consideration.-Vec- QUar-t, An obsolete form of quarry*. 
When temples lye like batter'd quarrs, 
Rich in their ruin'd sepulchers. 
P. Fletcher, Poems, p. 136. (Halliwell.) 
A chrysolite, a gem, the very agate 
Of state and policy, cut from the quar 
l. B. Jonson, Magnetick Lady, i. 1. 
