{
  "id": "quantity.numerical",
  "term": "quantity",
  "sense": "numerical",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 7,
  "arena": "EmergenceLexicon",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "the size of how many things are in a space",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "number.quantity",
      "size.measurement"
    ],
    "interaction": "When a number of things are in a space, they together are a size.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "abstract amount",
      "comparative magnitude",
      "numeric representation"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The 2020 U.S. Census counted 331,449,281 people in the country.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Large Hadron Collider contains 1.0 × 10^14 protons per beam during operation.",
      "domain": "physics"
    },
    {
      "text": "Amazon's warehouse in Tilbury, UK, holds over 10 million items at peak inventory.",
      "domain": "economics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "number.quantity",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "amount.quantity",
    "figure.numeric",
    "least.comparative",
    "lot.quantity",
    "measurement.quantitative",
    "meters.measurement",
    "million.numerical",
    "multiple.quantity",
    "ratio.proportion",
    "score.points"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "quantities",
    "quantity"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-quantity.numerical"
}