Abundance

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The American HeritageĀ® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A great or plentiful amount.
  • n. Fullness to overflowing: "My thoughts . . . are from the abundance of my heartā€ ( Thomas De Quincey).
  • n. Affluence; wealth.
  • n. Chemistry The amount of an isotope of an element that exists in nature, usually expressed as a percentage of the total amount of all isotopes of the element.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. An overflowing fullness; ample sufficiency; great plenty; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; wealth: -- strictly applicable to quantity only, but sometimes used of number.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A copious supply or quantity; overflowing plenteousness; unrestricted sufficiency: strictly applicable to quantity only, but sometimes used of number: as, an abundance of corn, or of people; to have money in great abundance.
  • n. Overflowing fullness or affluence; repletion; amplitude of means or resources.
  • n. Synonyms Exuberance, Profusion, etc. (see plenty); plenteousness, plentifulness, plenitude, sufficiency, copiousness, ampleness, luxuriance, supply. See affluence.
  • n. In card-playing, same as abondance.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. (physics) the ratio of the number of atoms of a specific isotope of an element to the total number of isotopes present
  • n. the property of a more than adequate quantity or supply
  • n. (chemistry) the ratio of the total mass of an element in the earth's crust to the total mass of the earth's crust; expressed as a percentage or in parts per million
  • Antonym
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    ratio   
    Synonym
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    riches    overflow    plenteousness    plenty    wealth    exuberance    copiousness    affluence    profusion    superfluity   
    Rhyme
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    Same Context
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    plenty    quantity    variety    profusion    wealth    proportion    handful    lack    richness    scarcity