measure
quantity
amount | how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify |
flood overflow
outpouring | a large flow |
| flood control | (engineering) the art or technique of trying to control rivers with dams etc in order to minimize the occurrence of floods |
flood
flowage | the act of flooding, filling to overflowing |
flood
floodlight
flood lamp
photoflood | light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam, used in photography |
| quantity | an adequate or large amount, he had a quantity of ammunition |
| quantity | the concept that something has a magnitude and can be represented in mathematical expressions by a constant or a variable |
| numerical quantity | a quantity expressed as a number |
variable
variable quantity | a quantity that can assume any of a set of values |
constant
constant quantity
invariable | a quantity that does not vary |
parameter
parametric quantity | a constant in the equation of a curve that can be varied to yield a family of similar curves |
unknown
unknown quantity | a variable whose values are solutions of an equation |
| unknown quantity | a factor in a given situation whose bearing and importance is not apparent, I don't know what the new man will do, he's still an unknown quantity |
flood tide
flood
rising tide | the occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide), a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune -Shakespeare |
climax
flood tide | the highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding, the climax of the artist's career, in the flood tide of his success |
floodplain
flood plain | a low plain adjacent to a river that is formed chiefly of river sediment and is subject to flooding |
flood
inundation
deluge alluvion | the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land, plains fertilized by annual inundations |
flash flood
flashflood | a sudden local flood of great volume and short duration |
Noah's flood
Noachian deluge
Noah and the Flood
the Flood | (Biblical) the great deluge that is said in the Book of Genesis to have occurred in the time of Noah, it was brought by God upon the earth because of the wickedness of human beings |
fundamental quantity
fundamental measure | one of the four quantities that are the basis of systems of measurement |
| definite quantity | a specific measure of amount |
| indefinite quantity | an estimated quantity |
| relative quantity | a quantity relative to some purpose |
prime
prime quantity | a number that has no factor but itself and |
charge unit
quantity unit | a measure of the quantity of electricity (determined by the amount of an electric current and the time for which it flows) |
complex number
complex quantity
imaginary number
imaginary | (mathematics) a number of the form abi where a and b are real numbers and i is the square root of - |
large indefinite quantity
large indefinite amount | an indefinite quantity that is above the average in size or magnitude |
small indefinite quantity
small indefinite amount | an indefinite quantity that is below average size or magnitude |
flood
inundation
deluge
torrent | an overwhelming number or amount, a flood of requests, a torrent of abuse |
| flood | cover with liquid, usually water, The swollen river flooded the village, The broken vein had flooded blood in her eyes |
| flood | become filled to overflowing, Our basement flooded during the heavy rains |
overwhelm
deluge
flood out | charge someone with too many tasks |
deluge
flood
inundate
swamp | fill quickly beyond capacity, as with a liquid, the basement was inundated after the storm, The images flooded his mind |
| flood in | arrive in great numbers |
flood
oversupply
glut | supply with an excess of, flood the market with tennis shoes, Glut the country with cheap imports from the Orient |