The term, most simply, refers to a vast quantity of data — say, the sum of all of the connections among all of Facebook's billion users.
The prefix 'nano' refers to a billionth of some quantity, whereas 'structure' refers to the way in which objects are organised.
Without 任何 rènhé 'any', the 'one'-phrases with negation in VO can emphasize indefinites or refer to a precise quantity, as shown in (15)–(15).
Both bàn 'half' and yī 'one' can refer to a small quantity, and thus they are frequently employed as minimizers in Mandarin.
In the context of statistics, the word "variable" is used to refer to a measurable quantity value, characteristic, or attribute of an individual or a system (e.g., heart rate, arterial blood pressure, or tidal volume) measured by a sensor.
Design-based estimation for a finite population quantity refers to an estimation approach where the randomness is introduced by the sampling design.
Newton referred to a varying (flowing) quantity as a fluent and to its instantaneous rate of change as a fluxion.
It may refer to a lack of knowledge of a quantity by an observer, or to the experimental inaccuracy with which a quantity is measured, or to some ambiguity in the definition of a quantity, or to a statistical spread in an ensemble of similary prepared systems.
In the remainder, when no subindex is indicated, we understand that mean depth and other quantities refer to a whole tree or a subtree depending on the context.
Quantities referring to a generic neuron have superscripts indicating the neuron layer (v: visual layer; a: auditory layer) and subscripts indicating the neuron indices within the layer (one subscript for visual neurons in the 1D layer and two subscripts for the auditory neurons in the 2D layer).
