# quantity (numerical)

the size of how many things are in a space

- Computed level: L7 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: everyday  ·  Arena: EmergenceLexicon

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [number](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-number.quantity), [size](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-size.measurement)

**Through:** When a number of things are in a space, they together are a size.

**Novel properties:**
- abstract amount
- comparative magnitude
- numeric representation

## Examples
- The 2020 U.S. Census counted 331,449,281 people in the country. *(institutions)*
- The Large Hadron Collider contains 1.0 × 10^14 protons per beam during operation. *(physics)*
- Amazon's warehouse in Tilbury, UK, holds over 10 million items at peak inventory. *(economics)*

## Used by
- [amount](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-amount.quantity) (L8)
- [figure](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-figure.numeric) (L8)
- [least](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-least.comparative) (L8)
- [lot](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-lot.quantity) (L8)
- [measurement](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-measurement.quantitative) (L12)
- [meters](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-meters.measurement) (L15)
- [million](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-million.numerical) (L8)
- [multiple](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-multiple.quantity) (L8)
- [ratio](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-ratio.proportion) (L10)
- [score](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-score.points) (L12)

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*Canonical: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-quantity.numerical*  
*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-quantity.numerical.json*  
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