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quantulum

quantulum noun: a very small amount.

Noun

quantulum

  1. (obsolete) A very small amount.
    • […] that a brave, vigorous, and consistent forwardness, guarded by just such a quantulum of tact as may save it from being signally offensive, will always ensure a certain degree of advancement; […]1832, The Quarterly Review (London), volume 98, page 198
    • […] with a little French and a little Spanish, a quantulum of wayside knowledge gleaned from lecture-rooms, and a smattering of half a dozen branches of science, that might as well have been studied at a country academy.1845, Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, The North American Review, volume 60, page 52

Origin of quantulum

From Latin quantulum.

Questions about quantulum

What does quantulum mean?
Quantulum means a very small amount.
What part of speech is quantulum?
Quantulum is a noun.

Words near quantulum in the dictionary

  1. quantophrenia
  2. Quantrill
  3. quantronium
  4. quantroniums
  5. quants
  6. quantulum
  7. quantum
  8. quantum acoustics
  9. quantum advantage
  10. quantum advantages
  11. quantum anomalies

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