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the size of how many things are in a space

Quantity (noun) means: the size of how many things are in a space. It emerges from number, size: When a number of things are in a space, they together are a size. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 7, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

quantity.numerical · forms: quantities, quantity

Examples

Emergence

from: number size
through: When a number of things are in a space, they together are a size.

Chain to foundations

marksL5 marks.visual: A difference that is a pattern on a surface when a part changes that surface.spaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.othersL2 others.distinct-entities: Things that are in space and time but not the same thing as one, or not the same pattern as one.matterL1 matter.substance: A pattern of energy that is in one place in space through time.quantityL7 quantity.numerical: the size of how many things are in a spacenumberL6 number.quantity: a mark of many distinct others together in a placesizeL2 size.measurement: the space that a thing's matter is inenergyL0 energy.capacity: That by which things can be not as they were.differenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.partL1 part.relation: Something that is in a thing but is not all of that thing.distinctL3 distinct.attribute: a thing is not the same as another thingchangeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.timeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.boundaryL2 boundary.limit: The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.interactionL2 interaction.process: When two things change each other.touchL3 touch.together: When there is no space between the boundaries of two things, and each can change the other.patternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.surfaceL4 surface.exterior: A part of a boundary that touches a thing and is where the thing is not the thing.
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Neighborhood

Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.

used by — 2 more not shownbuilt fromamountL8amount.quantity — the quantity of a thing is a size or a numberfigureL8figure.numeric — a number that is a quantityleastL8least.comparative — the small quantity that is less than every other quantitylotL8lot.quantity — a large quantity of somethingmillionL8million.numerical — a number that is a large quantitymultipleL8multiple.quantity — more than one thingratioL10ratio.proportion — a relation that compares one quantity to anothermeasurementL12measurement.quantitative — A process that uses a regular pattern applied to a thing's space or size, where the difference is recorded as a numericaquantityL7quantity.numerical — the size of how many things are in a spacenumberL6number.quantity — a mark of many distinct others together in a placesizeL2size.measurement — the space that a thing's matter is in

Used by (10)

amountL8figureL8leastL8lotL8millionL8multipleL8ratioL10measurementL12scoreL12metersL14

Relations

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Provenance

author: openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b · date: 2026-07-29 · confidence: 0.6