Definition of Small indefinite quantity

1. Noun. An indefinite quantity that is below average size or magnitude.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Small Indefinite Quantity

small farmer
small for gestational age
small fortune
small forward
small forwards
small fry
small gross
small heath
small heaths
small hours
small icosihemidodecahedron
small increment sensitivity index
small increment sensitivity index test
small indefinite amount
small indefinite quantity (current term)
small interarch distance
small intestine
small intestines
small l liberal
small l liberals
small letter
small loan company
small lymphocytic lymphoma
small man syndrome
small molecule drug
small molecule drugs
small nuclear RNA
small nuclear ribonucleoprotein
small nuclear ribonucleoproteins

Literary usage of Small indefinite quantity

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1895)
"First a general experiment was made by putting a small indefinite quantity of each metal, in a finely divided state, into an indefinite quantity of ferric ..."

2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1894)
"LOAK, LOKE, LOCK, a small indefinite quantity. Also applied to a small quantity of meal, sand, sugar, etc. A loah of anything is a larger quantity than a ..."

3. Northumberland Words by Richard Oliver Heslop, Harry Haldane, Oliver Heslop (1894)
"LOAK, LORE, LOCK, a small indefinite quantity. Also applied to a small quantity of meal, sand, sugar, etc. A loak of anything is a larger quantity than a ..."

4. Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Francis Lieber, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1829)
"Beside these, there is a small portion of carbonic acid, a variable portion of aqueous vapor, and a-very small, indefinite quantity of hydrogen. (See Gas. ..."

5. Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1829)
"Beside these, there is a small portion of carbonic acid, a variable portion of aqueous vapor, and a very small, indefinite quantity of hydrogen. (See Gas. ..."

6. Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1838)
"Beside these, there is a small portion of carbonic acid, a variable portion of aqueous vapor, and a very small, indefinite quantity of hydrogen. (See Gas. ..."

7. Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake (1851)
"Beside these, there is a small portion of carbonic acid, a variable portion of aqueous vapor, and a very small, indefinite quantity of hydrogen. (See Gas. ..."

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