amount

noun

Definition of amountnext
as in quantity
a given or particular mass or aggregate of matter is this small amount of food supposed to feed the whole hockey team?

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Recent Examples of amount That amount doesn’t include all the furniture, appliances, tools and clothes that were destroyed. — Noelle Phillips, Denver Post, 16 Aug. 2026 Skies will be overcast to mostly cloudy Monday morning with high amounts of moisture in the air. — Trey Fulbright, CBS News, 16 Aug. 2026 Complaints are loudest in cities with the least amount of multimodal infrastructure, Hu-Nguyen argued. — Sierra Lopez, Mercury News, 16 Aug. 2026 If the three valence quarks were solely responsible for baryon number, the amount of baryon excess should track the electric charge carried by those quarks. — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 16 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for amount
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  • This level of success — the toppling of world record-holders and the quantity of international medals — is new to the family.
    — Peter Baugh, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2026
  • Women in their twenties have healthier eggs, in greater quantities, than women in their thirties.
    — Anna Russell, New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2026
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“Amount.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/amount. Accessed 17 Aug. 2026.

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