how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify | the quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable |
the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule | relative darkness or lightness of a color |
any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal | a numerical quantity measured or assigned or computed |
measuring instrument having a sequence of marks at regular intervals; used as a reference in making measurements | an ideal accepted by some individual or group |
a container of some standard capacity that is used to obtain fixed amounts of a substance | the amount (of money or goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else |
musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats | (music) the relative duration of a musical note |
(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 | |