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quant suff

quant suff adverb: the amount of the last ingredient in a recipe or prescription required to make it up to the required quantity of a mixture.

Adverb

quant suff

  1. (dated) The amount of the last ingredient in a recipe or prescription required to make it up to the required quantity of a mixture.

Forms of quant suff

alternative formq.s.

Origin of quant suff

Borrowed from Latin quantum sufficit (“as much as is required”), then clipped to only the first syllable of each word.

Questions about quant suff

What does quant suff mean?
Quant suff means the amount of the last ingredient in a recipe or prescription required to make it up to the required quantity of a mixture.
What part of speech is quant suff?
Quant suff is an adverb.

Words near quant suff in the dictionary

  1. quant
  2. quant fund
  3. quant funds
  4. quant pole
  5. quant poles
  6. quant suff
  7. quant.
  8. quant. suff.
  9. quanta
  10. quanta of Indian blood
  11. quantal

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