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plural amounts
The total, aggregate or sum of material (not applicable to discrete numbers or units or items in standard English). examples
A quantity or volume. quotations examples
The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives. […] who, if anyone, is policing their use[?] Such concerns were sharpened further by the continuing revelations about how the US National Security Agency (NSA) has been using algorithms to help it interpret the colossal amounts of data it has collected from its covert dragnet of international telecommunications.
2013 July 26, Leo Hickman, “How algorithms rule the world”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 26
(nonstandard, sometimes proscribed) The number (the sum) of elements in a set. quotations
The final amount of students who have participated to mobility for the period 1995-1999 is held to be around 460 000.
2001, Gisella Gori, Towards an EU right to education, page 195
third-person singular simple present amounts, present participle amounting, simple past and past participle amounted
(intransitive, followed by to) To total or evaluate. examples
(intransitive, followed by to) To be the same as or equivalent to. examples
(obsolete, intransitive) To go up; to ascend. quotations
So up he rose, and thence amounted straight.
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, stanza 54