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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishamounten(“to mount up to, come up to, signify”), fromOld Frenchamonter(“to amount to”), fromamont,amunt(“uphill, upward”), from theprepositional phrasea mont(“toward or to a mountain or heap”), fromLatinad montem, fromad(“to”) +montem, accusative ofmons(“mountain”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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amount (pluralamounts)

  1. Thetotal,aggregate orsum of material(not applicable to discrete numbers or units or items in standard English).
    Theamount of atmospheric pollution threatens a health crisis.
  2. Aquantity orvolume.
    Pour a smallamount of water into the dish.
    The dogs need differentamounts of food.
    • 2013 July 26,Leo Hickman, “How algorithms rule the world”, inThe Guardian Weekly, volume189, number 7, page26:
      The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives.[…]who, if anyone, is policing their use[?] Such concerns were sharpened further by the continuing revelations about how the US National Security Agency (NSA) has been using algorithms to help it interpret the colossalamounts of data it has collected from its covert dragnet of international telecommunications.
  3. (nonstandard, sometimes proscribed) Thenumber (thesum) of elements in aset.
    • 2001, Gisella Gori,Towards an EU right to education, page195:
      The finalamount of students who have participated to mobility for the period 1995-1999 is held to be around 460 000.

Usage notes

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  • The use ofamount for countable things is often considered incorrect, withnumber orquantity being preferred in those contexts. Some go further by restrictingamount to immeasurable things (that is, things that one cannot put a specific quantity to, such as intangibles), and usingquantity for things that can be measured.[1][2][3][4] However, when referring to something uncountable but measurable, the termamount is so widespread that it is generally considered interchangeable withquantity.

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Derived terms

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Translations

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total or sum of items
quantity or volume
number of elements in a set—seenumber
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Verb

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amount (third-person singular simple presentamounts,present participleamounting,simple past and past participleamounted)

  1. (intransitive, followed byto) Tototal orevaluate.
    The money in my pocketamounts to three dollars and change.
  2. (intransitive, followed byto) To be thetantamount to; toreach up to thelevel of.
    He was a pretty good student, but neveramounted to much professionally.
    His responseamounted to gross insubordination.
    • 1965, Arne Zettersten,Studies in the dialect and vocabulary of theAncrene Riwle (Lund Studies in English;31),Lund: C. W. K. Gleerup,page21:
      It was, however,J.R.R. Tolkien who pointed out the close relationship in language as well as spelling, almostamounting to identity, between the Corpus MS of theAncrene Riwle (A) and the Bodley MS of theKatherine Group (B).
    • 2023 July 24, Chris Eberhart, “NY police used AI to track drivers on highways as attorney questions legality”, inFox News‎[1]:
      "The breadth of this LPR system is spectacular andamounts to a warrantless search."
  3. (obsolete, intransitive) To goup; toascend.

Translations

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to total or evaluate
to be the same as
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See also

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References

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  1. ^Amy Bryan (10 November 2021), “Commonly Confused Words: Amount vs. Number vs. Quantity”, inBKA, retrieved21 June 2023
  2. ^Craig Shrives (21 June 2023 (last accessed)), “Amount Of, Quantity Of, and Number Of”, inGrammar Monster
  3. ^Manuel Rubina (21 May 2018), “The Difference between Amount, Quantity, and Number”, inThe TR Company, retrieved21 June 2023
  4. ^“Amount vs. Quantity vs. Number”, inChegg Writing, 4 March 2021, retrieved21 June 2023

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