amount

Definitions

1. Import.
2. The total, aggregate or sum of material (not applicable to discrete numbers or units or items in standard English).
3. A quantity or volume.
4. quantity
5. The number (the sum) of elements in a set.
   nonstandard, proscribed, sometimes
6. figure
7. plenty; shedload
8. like hell; a hell of a lot; shedloads

Equivalents

Examples

“The amount of atmospheric pollution threatens a health crisis.”

“Pour⟳ a small amount of water into the dish.”

“The dogs need⟳ different amounts of food.”

“The use⟳ of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence⟳ on our lives.[…]who, if anyone, is policing their use⟳[?] Such concerns were sharpened further by the continuing revelations about how the US National Security Agency (NSA) has been using algorithms to help⟳ it interpret⟳ the colossal amounts of data it has collected from its covert dragnet of international telecommunications.”

“The final amount of students who have⟳ participated to mobility for the period 1995-1999 is held to be around 460 000.”

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