INDEFINITE QUANTITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does indefinite quantity mean? 

• INDEFINITE QUANTITY (noun)
  The noun INDEFINITE QUANTITY has 1 sense:

1. an estimated quantity

  Familiarity information: INDEFINITE QUANTITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INDEFINITE QUANTITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An estimated quantity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("indefinite quantity" is a kind of...):

amount; measure; quantity (how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "indefinite quantity"):

reserve ((medicine) potential capacity to respond in order to maintain vital functions)

supply (an amount of something available for use)

precipitation (the quantity of water falling to earth at a specific place within a specified period of time)

load; loading (a quantity that can be processed or transported at one time)

load (an amount of alcohol sufficient to intoxicate)

dosage; dose (the quantity of an active agent (substance or radiation) taken in or absorbed at any one time)

skinful (a quantity of alcoholic drink sufficient to make you drunk)

worth (an indefinite quantity of something having a specified value)

top-up (an amount needed to restore something to its former level)

ullage (the amount that a container (as a wine bottle or tank) lacks of being full)

tankage (the quantity contained in (or the capacity of) a tank or tanks)

spoilage (the amount that has spoiled)

spillage (the amount that has spilled)

small indefinite amount; small indefinite quantity (an indefinite quantity that is below average size or magnitude)

run (the production achieved during a continuous period of operation (of a machine or factory etc.))

addition; gain; increase (a quantity that is added)

outage (the amount of something (as whiskey or oil) lost in storage or transportation)

neighborhood; region (the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in 'in the region of'))

output; production; yield (the quantity of something (as a commodity) that is created (usually within a given period of time))

limit; limit point; point of accumulation (the mathematical value toward which a function goes as the independent variable approaches infinity)

limit; limitation (the greatest amount of something that is possible or allowed)

large indefinite amount; large indefinite quantity (an indefinite quantity that is above the average in size or magnitude)

headspace (the volume left at the top of a filled container (bottle or jar or tin) before sealing)

footstep; pace; step; stride (the distance covered by a step)

containerful (the quantity that a container will hold)

correction; fudge factor (a quantity that is added or subtracted in order to increase the accuracy of a scientific measure)

catch; haul (the quantity that was caught)

capacity ((computer science) the amount of information (in bytes) that can be stored on a disk drive)

breakage (the quantity broken)

bag (the quantity of game taken in a particular period (usually by one person))