hidden quantity
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.94 in modern English
31
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The pronunciation (long or short) of a vowel that appears before two consonants.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The part which deals with Sounds, Inflection, and Word-Formation was written by the junior author, who is also mainly responsible for matters of orthography, hidden quantity, etc., throughout the book;"
- "The reality of the "hidden quantity" in these participial forms is completely borne out by three independent testimonies: inscriptions with the long vowel marked by the apex ; the development of the relevant forms in the Romance languages; and the explicit discussion by Aulus Gellius Noct. att. 9.6."
- "This kind of detective work has produced a number of rules governing hidden quantity which are given in simplified and abbreviated form below:"
- "This is consistent with the fact that an observation requires a measurement and, therefore, between observations, the unobservable ψ evolves in an unobservable way (according to Schrödinger's equation). In connection with this important remark, Bell [142] could state that the fact that a so-called hidden quantity “rather than ψ, is historically called a hidden variable, is a piece of historical silliness.”"
- "The knowledge of all that we have mentioned will be realized after we have completed the means to know the hidden quantity. Indeed, if we know its quantity, we shall know to which species the number belongs;"
Usage
Inflected Forms
hidden quantities (plural)