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Extraordinary in bulk, extent, quantity, or degree; very great; vast; huge; immense; as, a prodigious mountain; a prodigious creature; a prodigious blunder. "Prodigious might." Milton.

The number or sum obtained by adding one number or quantity to itself as many times as there are units in another number; the number resulting from the multiplication of two or more numbers; as, the product of the multiplication of 7 by 5 is 35. In general, the result of any kind of multiplication. See the Note under M…

8, 4, 2 -- Harmonic progression, a progression in which the terms are the reciprocals of quantities in arithmetical progression, as

le of being prolonged; as, life is prolongable by care. Each syllable being a prolongable quantity. Rush.

relation or adaptation of one portion to another, or to the whole, as respect magnitude, quantity, or degree; comparative relation; ratio; as, the proportion of the parts of a building, or of the body. The image of Christ, made after his own proportion. Ridley. Formed in the best proportions of her sex. Sir W. Scott.…

Math.) Constituting a proportion; having the same, or a constant, ratio; as, proportional quantities; momentum is proportional to quantity of matter. Proportional logarithms, logistic logarithms. See under Logistic. -- Proportional scale, a scale on which are marked parts proportional to the logarithms of the natural…

That part of grammar which treats of the quantity of syllables, of accent, and of the laws of versification or metrical composition.

Drawn out; extended. [R.] Time is a protensive quantity. Sir W. Hamilton.

An alkaloid found in opium in small quantities, and extracted as a white crystalline substance.

A quantity of rope-yarn, or the like, placed, as a fender, on the bow of a boat.

A small quantity of dirty standing water; a muddy plash; a small pool. Spenser.

of the second degree; as, a quadratic equation, in which the highest power of the unknown quantity is a square.

vision or distribution by four, or into four parts; also, a taking the fourth part of any quantity or number.

To a fourfold quantity; so as to be, or cause to be, quadruple; as, to be quadruply recompensed.

An American market clam (Venus mercenaria). It is sold in large quantities, and is highly valued as food. Called also round clam, and hard clam.

nalysis which merely determines the constituents of a substance without any regard to the quantity of each ingredient; -- contrasted with quantitative analysis.

ything, containing its rarest virtue, or most subtle and essential constituent in a small quantity; pure or concentrated essence. Let there be light, said God; and forthwith light Ethereal, first of things, quintessence pure, Sprung from the deep. Milton.

A quantic of the fifth degree. See Quantic.

The quality of being racy; peculiar and piquant flavor. The general characteristics of his [Cobbett's] style were perspicuity, unequaled and inimitable; . . . a purity always simple, and raciness often elegant. London Times.

mental taste by a strong or distinctive character of thought or language; peculiar and piquant; fresh and lively. Our raciest, most idiomatic popular word. M. Arnold. Burn's English, though not so racy as his Scotch, is generally correct. H. Coleridge. The rich and racy humor of a natural converser fresh from the plow…