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Abundance

noun

The property of a more than adequate quantity or supply. Synonyms: copiousness, teemingness.

(physics) the ratio of the number of atoms of a specific isotope of an element to the total number of isotopes present.

(chemistry) the ratio of the total mass of an element in the earth's crust to the total mass of the earth's crust; expressed as a percentage or in parts per million.

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"Abundance" Quotes from Famous Books

... name of the chief journalist. You ring a bell, are bid to enter, and the apartment is before you. Immense windows, rising from the floor to the ceiling, and opening upon a balcony, which overhangs the Rue Lepelletier, afford abundance of light for your eye to detect everything in the room by day, and an immense chandelier with gas-burners and opaque shades, pouring forth its flood of mellow radiance, would facilitate the same investigation yet more at night. Beneath the chandelier ...

— Edmond Dantes • Edmund Flagg

... and a deep pool below it, and here for years great schools of king salmon came crowding up to the foot of that fall. To spear them or net them was very easy; they were the fattest and best salmon among all these islands. My household had abundance of meat for the winter's need. But the cruel spirit of that glacier grew angry with me, I know not why, and drove the ice mountain down towards the sea and spoiled my salmon stream. A year or two more and it ...

— Alaska Days with John Muir • Samual Hall Young

... plants will produce an abundance. They should be grown two feet apart, and may remain in the open ground during the winter. The ...

— The Field and Garden Vegetables of America • Fearing Burr

... like a glowing rock, and which, by belching out flames, keeps its crest in an everlasting blaze. This thing awakens our wonder as much as those aforesaid; namely, when a land lying close to the extreme of cold can have such abundance of matter to keep up the heat, as to furnish eternal fires with unseen fuel, and supply an endless provocative to feed the burning. To this isle also, at fixed and appointed seasons, there drifts a boundless ...

— The Danish History, Books I-IX • Saxo Grammaticus ("Saxo the Learned")

... the Hudson Bay Company present the only barrier to our domain on the extreme north; in all embracing an area of 166,000 square miles, a country sufficiently extensive to admit of the erection of four states of the largest class, each enjoying in abundance most of the elements of future greatness. Its soil is of the most productive character, yet our northern latitude saves us from malaria and death, which in other climes are so often attendant on a liberal ...

— The History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier • Charles E. Flandrau

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