Quantity

(noun.) an adequate or large amount; 'he had a quantity of ammunition'.

(noun.) the concept that something has a magnitude and can be represented in mathematical expressions by a constant or a variable.

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• In each bladder was a small quantity of dried peas, or little pebbles, as I was afterwards informed. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• How a living animal obtains its quantity of this fluid, called fire, is a curious question. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• If this quantity of water plunges over a 10-ft. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Thus, while the force was reduced nearly one-half, the quantity of product was more than doubled. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Many varieties of coal produce a quantity of fine dust which settles in the roadways, on roof, and sides, and floor. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Quantity of Water Furnished by a River. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Two-fifths part of dextrine (or the same quantity of gelatine) may be substituted for the 2 parts of starch. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• To send abroad any great quantity of it, therefore, would be to send abroad a part of the necessary subsistence of the people. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Barbara went out: she returned soon-- Madam, Mrs. Harden says she has sent up the usual quantity. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• I saw by his tilting of the bottle that there was no great quantity left in it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Thus the quantity of good clinker obtainable was unfavorably affected. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• William Larkins let me keep a larger quantity than usual this year. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• The owner of bank money cannot draw out bullion, without producing to the bank receipts for the quantity which he wants. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Explosions have occurred, however, in cases where it is extremely doubtful whether gas has been present in dangerous quantity, and attention has been drawn to the possible causes. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• It is a cheap source of illumination, but is found in relatively few localities and only in limited quantity. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• A siren worked by explosion of small quantities of oxygen and hydrogen mixed. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Generally speaking, meats are the most expensive foods we can purchase, and hence should be bought seldom and in small quantities. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• The steam-shovel did not discriminate, but picked up handily single pieces weighing five or six tons and loaded them on the skips with quantities of smaller lumps. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The cap suggested the necessity and invention of machines for making them quickly and in great quantities. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• They had reduced the force of earlier times by making larger quantities by better processes. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• This soon resulted in sending great quantities of rubber overshoes to Europe and America. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Gold has been found in smaller or larger quantities in nearly all parts of the world. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• It yields quantities of asphaltum; fragments of it lie all about its banks; this stuff gives the place something of an unpleasant smell. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• This dissolves in water, but when boiled in large quantities of the same it is decomposed into glycerine and boracic acid. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• They will do this, I say, more nearly than equal quantities of almost any other commodity; for even equal quantities of corn will not do it exactly. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Honey, glycerine, and mucilage acacia equal quantities of each sufficient to make into a paste of the desired consistence. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• The same kind of gas may also be obtained in smaller quantities by the distillation of tar, rosin, or pitch. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• Gold had been retained only for international trade, and every government had produced excessive quantities of paper money for domestic use. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The latter was a feeble child, and it was only by prodigious quantities of calomel that Lady Southdown was able to keep him in life at all. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Large quantities of the cheaper class of watches are now made by machinery in the United States, Switzerland, France, Germany and England. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.

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