amount

The total, aggregate or sum of material (not applicable to discrete numbers or units or items in standard English).

Noun

  1. The total, aggregate or sum of material (not applicable to discrete numbers or units or items in standard English).
    • The amount of atmospheric pollution threatens a health crisis.
  2. A quantity or volume.
    • Pour a small amount of water into the dish.
    • The dogs need different amounts of food.
    • 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...
  3. The number (the sum) of elements in a set.
    • The final amount of students who have participated to mobility for the period 1995-1999 is held to be around 460 000. - 2001, Gisella Gori, Towards an EU right to education, page 195:

Origin

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Latin ad Old French a Proto-Indo-European *men- Proto-Indo-European *món-tis Proto-Italic *monts Latin mōns Old French mont Old French amont Old French amonterbor. Middle English amounten English amount From Middle English amounten (“to mount up to, come up to, signify”), from Old French amonter (“to amount to”), from amont, amunt (“uphill, upward”), from the prepositional phrase a mont (“toward or to a mountain or heap”), from Latin ad montem, from ad (“to”) + montem, accusative of mons (“mountain”).

Forms

amounts

Hyponyms

batch bolus notional amount principal amount serving

Derived

amount of substance paramount

Verb

  1. To total or evaluate.
    • The money in my pocket amounts to three dollars and change.
  2. To be the tantamount to; to reach up to the level of.
    • He was a pretty good student, but never amounted to much professionally.
    • His response amounted to gross insubordination.
    • It was, however, J.R.R. Tolkien who pointed out the close relationship in language as well as spelling, almost amounting to identity, between the Corpus MS of the Ancrene Riwle (A) and the Bodley MS of the Katherine...
  3. To go up; to ascend.
    • So up he rose, and thence amounted straight. - 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 54:

Forms

amounts amounting amounted

Related

extent magnitude measurement number quantity size