English-Polish translations for quantity

• ilość
  To co się liczy to jakość, a nie ilość. What counts is quality, not quantity.
  Po drugie, ilość to nie wszystko, liczy się też jakość. Secondly, quantity is one thing, quality is another.
  Ilość i jakość są faktycznie nierozerwalnie ze sobą związane. Quantity and quality are actually inextricably linked.
• wielkość
  Wielka ilość odpadów, całkowita wielkość odpadów rośnie z każdą godziną, czyniąc sytuację jeszcze bardziej dramatyczną. The mass of waste, the overall quantity of waste grows by the hour, making the situation ever more dramatic.
• duża ilość

Definition of quantity

• A fundamental, generic term used when referring to the measurement of a scalar, vector, number of items or to some other way of denominating the value of a collection or group of items
• An indefinite amount of something
• A specific measured amount
• A considerable measure or amount
• Property of a phenomenon, body, or substance, where the property has a magnitude that can be expressed as number and a reference

Examples

• You have to choose between quantity and quality.
• Some soap making oils are best as base oils, used in a larger quantity in the soap, while other oils are best added in a small quantity.
• Olive oil can be used practically in any quantity.
• This bag would normally costs $497.50 for a quantity of 250, at a price of $1.99 per piece.
• Generally it should not be used in a quantity larger than 15 percent.
• The Boeing P-26A was the first all-metal monoplane fighter produced in quantity for the U.S. Army Air Corps.
• x plus y quantity squared equals x squared plus 2xy plus y squared

Related words

• disquantity
• quantity surveyor
• quantity of motion
• quantity manufacturing
• quantity of dimension one
• quantity of light
• quantity contract
• physical quantity
• vector quantity