how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify | a character conveying the lexical meaning of a logogram |
the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule | (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed |
any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal | a person who has radical ideas or opinions |
measuring instrument having a sequence of marks at regular intervals; used as a reference in making measurements | (mathematics) a quantity expressed as the root of another quantity |
a container of some standard capacity that is used to obtain fixed amounts of a substance | (chemistry) two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a molecule |
musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats | an atom or group of atoms with at least one unpaired electron; in the body it is usually an oxygen molecule that has lost an electron and will stabilize itself by stealing an electron from a nearby molecule |
(prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse | |
a statute in draft before it becomes law | |
a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated | |