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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
abundance
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
great
▪ The greater abundance of iron ores over those of copper also meant that iron was more readily obtainable and cheaper.
▪ So it seems that over the years pandas have learned to enjoy food which was in great abundance.
▪ Mercury thus contains a much greater abundance of denser materials, the strong implication being that it is rich in metallic iron.
relative
▪ Such isoforms and their relative abundance could mediate specific cell type or matrix interactions.
▪ The relative abundance of these elements is increasingly being used to trace chemical processes in the mantle, crust, and oceans.
▪ Every year particular species arrive and disappear, and change in absolute and relative abundance.
▪ The relative abundance records the percentage of the total population represented by each species.
▪ Finally, we should comment on the relative abundance of ozone and hydrogen peroxide at Cape Grim.
▪ Unhappily, habits which may have had some virtue in times of scarcity became vices in times of relative abundance.
▪ Provided this is taken into account, the differences between comparable samples are as readily discernible as when relative abundance is used.
▪ Temporal variations of solid concentrations at that level indicate the relative abundance of particles whose diameters may be calculated.
■ VERB
find
▪ Right: The little stream which flows under Puente Chinoluiz where we found an abundance of fish.
▪ This became a difficult order to follow after silver was found in tempting abundance at a place called Los Frayles.
▪ There is pathos to be found in it in abundance, and images of love and great nobility of spirit.
▪ The scouts who have been found in abundance at Los Angeles Kings games lately got an eyeful Wednesday.
▪ These are a group of extremely primitive molluscs, which are found in any abundance only in Lower Palaeozoic rocks.
▪ Shoppers find an abundance of red power suits.
▪ All the typical woodland flowers can be found here in abundance, including serene displays of lily of the valley.
▪ He did not have far to go to find an enthralling abundance of birds.
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▪ Both are characteristics the Tiphook chairman has in abundance.
▪ It can offer you just about everything you can think of by day and by night, in abundance.
▪ It describes the lushness and abundance of the coming millennium.
▪ It is 40 percent more expensive than coal, and there is an abundance of alternative energy sources.
▪ Optimists point out that there is an abundance of good news.
▪ The Bordeaux exhibition goes all out for an abundance of images.
▪ The focus today is not the predicted disappearance of order but the abundance of it throughout the natural world.
▪ The sheer abundance of lawyers tends to promote excessive litigation.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Abundance

Abundance \A*bun"dance\ ([.a]*b[u^]n"dans), n. [OE. (h)abundaunce, abundance, F. abondance, L. abundantia, fr. abundare. See Abound.] An overflowing fullness; ample sufficiency; great plenty; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; wealth: -- strictly applicable to quantity only, but sometimes used of number.

It is lamentable to remember what abundance of noble blood hath been shed with small benefit to the Christian state.
--Raleigh.

Syn: Exuberance; plenteousness; plenty; copiousness; overflow; riches; affluence; wealth.

Usage: Abundance, Plenty, Exuberance. These words rise upon each other in expressing the idea of fullness. Plenty denotes a sufficiency to supply every want; as, plenty of food, plenty of money, etc. Abundance express more, and gives the idea of superfluity or excess; as, abundance of riches, an abundance of wit and humor; often, however, it only denotes plenty in a high degree. Exuberance rises still higher, and implies a bursting forth on every side, producing great superfluity or redundance; as, an exuberance of mirth, an exuberance of animal spirits, etc.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
abundance

mid-14c., from Old French abondance and directly from Latin abundantia "fullness, plenty," noun of state from abundantem (nominative abundans), present participle of abundare "to overflow" (see abound).

Wiktionary
abundance

n. 1 A large quantity; many. (First attested around 1150 to 1350.) 2 An overflowing fullness or ample sufficiency; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; plentifulness. (First attested around 1350 to 1470.) 3 Wealth; affluence; plentiful amount of resources. (First attested around 1350 to 1470.) 4 frequency, amount, ratio of something within a given environment or sample. (First attested in the late 19th century.) 5 (context card games English) A bid to take nine or more tricks in solo whist. (First attested in the late 19th century.)

WordNet
abundance
  1. n. the property of a more than adequate quantity or supply; "an age of abundance" [syn: copiousness, teemingness] [ant: scarcity]

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

  3. (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

Wikipedia
Abundance (chemistry)

In a chemical reaction, a reactant is considered to be in abundance if the quantity of that substance is high and virtually unchanged by the reaction. Abundance differs from excess in that a reactant in excess is simply any reactant other than the limiting reagent; the amount by which a reactant is in excess is often specified, such as with terms like "twofold excess", indicating that there is twice the amount of reactant necessary for the limiting reagent to be completely reacted. In this case, should the reaction go to completion, the quantity of the reactant in excess will have halved.

When performing kinetic or thermodynamic studies, it is often useful to have one or more reactants in abundance, as it allows their concentrations to be treated as constants (or parameters) rather than as variables.

Abundance

Abundance may refer to:

In science and technology:

  • Abundance (economics), the opposite of scarcities
  • Abundance (ecology), the relative representation of a species in a community
  • Abundance (programming language), a Forth-like computer programming language
  • Abundance, a property of abundant numbers
  • chemistry
    • Abundance (chemistry), when a substance in a reaction is present in high quantities
    • Abundance of the chemical elements, a measure of how common elements are
      • Natural abundance, the natural prevalence of different isotopes of an element on Earth
    • Abundance of elements in Earth's crust

In literature:

  • Abundance (play), a 1990 stage play written by Beth Henley
  • Al-Kawthar ("Abundance"), the 108th sura of the Qur'an
  • Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think, a 2012 book by Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler

In business:

  • Abundance Generation, a renewable energy investment platform

In architecture:

  • Fountain de la Abundancia, a former fountain in Madrid

See also:

  • Abundant life (disambiguation)
Abundance (ecology)

Abundance is an ecological concept referring to the relative representation of a species in a particular ecosystem. It is usually measured as the number of individuals found per sample. How species abundances are distributed within an ecosystem is referred to as relative species abundances.

Abundance is contrasted with, but typically correlates to, incidence, which is the frequency with which the species occurs at all in a sample. When high abundance is accompanied by low incidence, it is considered locally or sporadically abundant.

A variety of sampling methods are used to measure abundance. For larger animals, these may include spotlight counts, track counts and roadkill counts, as well as presence at monitoring stations. In many plant communities the abundances of plant species are measured by plant cover, i.e. the relative area covered by different plant species in a small plot.

Relative species abundance is calculated by dividing the number of species from one group by the total number of species from all groups.

Usage examples of "abundance".

For I spake with thee, it is nigh two years agone, when thou wert abiding the coming of our Lady in the castle yonder But now I see of thee that thou art brighter-faced, and mightier of aspect than aforetime, and it is in my mind that the Lady of Abundance must have loved thee and holpen thee, and blessed thee with some great blessing.

I had bought them dresses and linen in abundance, they were well lodged and well fed, I took them to the theatre and to the country, and the consequence was they all adored me, and seemed to think that this manner of living would go on for ever.

Tyler Argosy talked about the abundance of crops available, about the miracle of growing things throughout the year.

Paying off the arsonist was not a problem - they had untraceable cash in abundance at their disposal and they had taken great care not to leave themselves open to identification by their pyrophilic agent.

The beans, massive, mottled spheres a little larger than his fist, were stored in open boxes, protected by their hard rinds, but they, too, showed both an abundance of ascorbic acid and a complete absence of anything that might block its uptake.

I went in with her and was astonished to see a great display of dresses, and in an adjoining closet all the array of the toilette, linen in abundance, and a good stock of shoes and embroidered slippers.

These are very near to the un-needing, to that which has no need of Knowing, they have abundance and intellection authentically, as being the first to possess.

While properly regulating and restricting the food of the invalid when necessary, they also recognize the fact that many are benefited by a liberal diet of the most substantial food, as steaks, eggs, oysters, milk, and other very nutritious articles of diet, which are always provided in abundance for those for whom they are suited.

The life of musicians, particularly the bluesmen of the past, was one of travel, long weeks on the road, and an abundance of easy women.

Room in South America for colonization can be obtained cheaply and in abundance, and when numbers shall be large enough to be company and encouragement for one another, the freed people will not be so reluctant to go.

His hands slid over the wide, sweet curve of her hips, cupping smoothness cool and solid, timeless and graceful as the swell of ancient pottery, promising abundance.

For though they had abundance of rich plenishing, and gay raiment, and good weapons and armour, howbeit of strange and uncouth fashion, yet he deemed when he looked on them that they would scarce have the souls of men in their bodies, but that they were utterly vile through and through, like the shapes of an evil dream.

States remained with them, and it was only in an abundance of caution that they expressed the right to resume such parts of their unlimited power as was delegated for the purposes enumerated.

He remarked, however, that I was not likely to be so well off on my return, because, in the country to which I was going, there was abundance of damaged goods, but that no one knew better than he did how to root out the venom left by the use of such bad merchandise.

Among the red trout and cakes made of oaten meal, there was an abundance of the famed honey of Carman itself, and sloak and dulse from the nearby sea, as well as its game: millicks, or periwinkles still in their shells, scallops and the meaty black sole.