QUANTITY  數量

DEGREE of being MANY OR FEW that CAN be MEASURED OR COUNTED.
Hypernym
  • DEGREEFEATURE of MORE or LESS.
    • FEATUREABSTRACT OBJECT a THING is SAID to BE OR to HAVE.
      • OBJECT[NO HYPERNYM.] WHAT one CAN NAME:refer to.
Hyponym
  • FEW SMALL in QUANTITY.
    • RARE HAPPEN FEW TIMES ONLY.
    • STRANGE FEW:rare AND NOT EXPECTED....
    • INSUFFICIENT FEW OR LITTLE IN-RELATION-TO what is NEEDED.
  • NUMBER QUANTITY when COUNTED. [THE DEFINITIONS IN THIS FIELD REMAIN CIRCULAR ON MANY LEVELS AND NEED TO BE CAREFULLY REVISED IN COLLABORATION WITH KARINE CHEMLA.]
    • ONE MOST SMALL NUMBER.
    • TWO The NUMBER which is the BIGGER successor of ONE.
    • EARTH BRANCH 
    • HEAVENLY STEM SEQUENCE:serial NUMBERing SYSTEM. [???] See also EARTH BRANCH.
    • FOUR The NUMBER which is the successor of THREE.
    • THREE The NUMBER which is the successor of TWO.
    • FIVE The NUMBER which is the successor of FOUR.
    • SIX The NUMBER which is the successor of FIVE.
    • SEVEN The NUMBER which is the successor of SIX.
    • EIGHT The NUMBER which is the successor of SEVEN.
    • NINE The NUMBER which is the successor of EIGHT.
    • TEN The NUMBER which is the successor of NINE.
    • HUNDRED The NUMBER which is the successor of ninety-nine.
    • THOUSAND The NUMBER which is the successor of 999.
    • HOW MANY WHAT NUMBER OF?
    • ZERO The EMPTY NUMBER.
    • TIMES NUMBER of EVENTS.
    • EVEN-NUMBER NUMBER THAT ONE CAN DIVIDE by TWO.
    • ODD-NUMBER NUMBER THAT ONE CANNOT DIVIDE by TWO.
  • SIZE QUANTITY of a DIMENSION.
    • BIG OF INTENSE SIZE OR DEGREE IN-RELATION-TO a STANDARD, OR IN-RELATION-TO the SIZE of a HUMAN....
    • DEEP BIG SIZE DOWNWARD.
Modern Chinese Criteria
數量 is the modern word for a quantity.

rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH /

  • Woerterbuch der Philosophie. Neue Beitraege zu einer Kritik der Sprache ( MAUTHNER WP 1924) p. 583

  • Dictionnaire culturel en langue francaise ( REY 2005) p. 3.2275

  • Historisches Woerterbuch der Philosophie ( RITTER 1971-2007) p. 7.1792

Words

眾寡  zhòng guǎ MC: tsyuwngH kwaeX OC: tjuŋs kʷraaʔDS 1 Attribution
    Syntactic words
  • NPabquantityDS
人數  rén shù MC: nyin srjuH OC: njin sqrosDS 1 Attribution
    Syntactic words
  • NPadV.postN{SUBJ}N=humanthe SUBJECT, as far as the number of people is concernedDS

Existing SW for

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