{
  "id": "amount.quantity",
  "term": "amount",
  "sense": "quantity",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 8,
  "arena": "EmergenceLexicon",
  "domain": "quantity/numerical",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "the quantity of a thing is a size or a number",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "size.measurement",
      "quantity.numerical",
      "number.quantity"
    ],
    "interaction": "size measurement and quantity together make how much of a thing there is",
    "novel_properties": [
      "magnitude of a single entity",
      "combined size and count",
      "quantitative extent"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The 2020 U.S. Census recorded exactly 331,449,281 residents, defining electoral representation and federal funding.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Large Hadron Collider circulates 2,808 proton bunches, each with about 100 billion particles, per beam.",
      "domain": "physics"
    },
    {
      "text": "Lake Mead held 37 million acre-feet of water in 1937, but dropped to 24 million by 2022 due to drought and demand.",
      "domain": "environment"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "quantity.numerical",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "bid.offer",
    "none.quantity"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "amount",
    "amounted",
    "amounting",
    "amounts"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added missing component 'number.quantity' (L6) which the original definition implicitly relies on. Definition remains unchanged as it was correct and the omission was in the component list."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-amount.quantity"
}