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amounts

/əˈmaʊnts/
Meanings
  • Noun

    A noun representing a number or quantity, especially one that can be counted or measured.

    - "The amounts of money each employee received as a bonus was impressive."
    - "We need to calculate the amounts of ingredients for the recipe."
    - "The amounts of rainfall vary greatly from region to region."
  • Noun

    A mass or quantity of something.

    - "The amounts of snow in the mountains is breathtaking."
    - "The amounts of data in the computer's memory is vast."
    - "The amounts of sand on the beach is constantly changing."
Rhymes
Words rhyming with amounts
mounts , founts , counts , pounds
Homonyms
Words having the same spelling or pronunciation but different meanings and origins

  1. amounts (en) : A noun representing a number or quantity.

  2. amounts (en) : The past tense of 'amount' as a verb, meaning 'to come to a certain place or level'.

  3. amounts (en) : A verb meaning 'to determine the size, weight, or extent of something'.

Homophones
Words having the same pronunciation but different meanings, origins, or spelling,

  1. amounts (en) : A noun representing a number or quantity.

  2. amounts (en) : The past tense of 'amount' as a verb, meaning 'to come to a certain place or level'.

Variants
List of all variants of amounts that leads to same result
amount , amount to much , amount to something , amounted , amounting , amounts , amount to , amounted to , amounting to , amounts to
Forms
Different forms of the word (e.g., verb conjugations, plural forms, comparative/superlative forms for adjectives).

amounts (plural), amount (singular), amountable (adjective), amounted (past tense)

Etymology
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Old French 'amount' from 'amont' meaning 'upstream'.

Trivia
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  1. The largest known number is a 'googolplex', which is a 1 followed by a googol number of zeros.

  2. The smallest known number is 0, which is the absence of any quantity.

  3. The number 1729 is known as 'the hardest number to spell' because it is the only number that can be written as the product of two distinct prime cubes: 13^3 and 17^3.

Related Concepts
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  1. quantity: A concept closely related to amounts, representing a size, number, or extent.

  2. measure: A concept related to amounts, representing the process of determining the size, weight, or extent of something.

Culture
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Amounts have been used in literature and art to represent wealth, abundance, and prosperity. For example, in Dante's Inferno, the seventh circle of hell is called 'The Circle of the False Coins', where those who have mismanaged or hoarded wealth are punished. In art, the still life genre often features bowls or baskets filled with fruits, vegetables, or other items, symbolizing the abundance of nature and the passage of time.

How to Memorize "amounts"

  1. visualize

    - Imagine a scale with weights or a pile of coins to visualize amounts.

  2. associate

    - Associate amounts with the number of fingers on one hand to remember small quantities, or with a handful to remember larger quantities.

  3. mnemonics

    - Use the mnemonic 'Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally' (Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication, Division, Addition, Subtraction) to remember the order of mathematical operations, and associate the letters with the first letters of each mathematical term to help remember their meanings.

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