| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To fit.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. To arise, ascend or soar. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To clamp, edit, fix or install. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To climb, escalate or clamber. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To heave, hoist or crawl. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To erect or build. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To assemble or compile.[Eve - graph theoretic] 8. Present participle conjugation of the verb amount.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (amount) | 1. Be tantamount or equivalent to; "Her action amounted to a rebellion".[Wordnet]. 2. Develop into; "This idea will never amount to anything".[Wordnet]. 3. Add up in number or quantity; "The bills amounted to $2,000"; "The bill came to $2,000".[Wordnet]. 4. To signify; to amount to.[Websters]. 5. To go up; to ascend.[Websters]. 6. To rise or reach by an accumulation of particular sums or quantities; to come (to) in the aggregate or whole; -- with to or unto.[Websters]. 7. To rise, reach, or extend in effect, substance, or influence; to be equivalent; to come practically (to); as, the testimony amounts to very little.[Websters]. 8. Base verb from the following inflections: amounting, amounted, amounts, amounter, amounters, amountingly and amountedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "AMOUNTING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Specialty Definition: AMOUNTING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Rising to, by accumulation or addition; coming or increasing to; resulting in effect or substance.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Present participle of amount. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: amount
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Amount in controversy | Amount in controversy (sometimes called jurisdictional amount) is a term used in United States civil procedure to denote a requirement that persons seeking to bring a lawsuit in a particular court must be suing for a certain minimum amount before that court may hear the case. (references) | ||
| Amount of money | A quantity of money. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Amount of substance | Amount of substance of an object is a physical quantity that measures the number of elementary entities in the object compared with the number of elementary entities in 0.012 kilogram of pure carbon-12 (elementary entities may be atoms, molecules, ions, electrons, or particles). This latter quantity is deemed a unit amount of substance. (references) | ||
| Large indefinite amount | An indefinite quantity that is above the average in size or magnitude. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Notional amount | Nominal or notional amounts outstanding are defined as the gross nominal or notional value of all deals concluded and not yet settled on the reporting date. For contracts with variable nominal or notional principal amounts, the basis for reporting is the nominal or notional principal amounts at the time of reporting. (references) | ||
| Recovery amount | When a bond or other financial derivative defaults, the recovery amount is the amount that the underlying company can afford to pay. This is based on the cash originally designated for the coupon or maturity payment (if they defaulted simply because they did not have enough cash), or by selling off assets, or other methods. (references) | ||
| Small indefinite amount | An indefinite quantity that is below average size or magnitude. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
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Specialty Expressions: amount
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Accession compensatory amount | Finance | A charge applied at import or export to adjust price levels and prevent currency fluctuations in agricultural trade between a new member state of the European Union and the rest of the Union during a transitional period. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Allowable claim amount | Energy | The total losses incurred by the holder of guarantee. (references) | |
| Amount Based Line-Type | Aerospace | A line-type based solely on the amount of service you purchase. (references) | |
| Amount billed | Business | The amount billed on a claim for services and supplies is the provider's charge (s) for health care treatment rendered. These amounts will vary depending on the physician, the area of the country, and whether or not the provider is an authorized CHAMPUS provider having pre-agreed to charge certain rates. A claim will have a Total Amount Billed for the total of items on the claim, and also an individual breakdown of the Amount Billed per Service, etc. (references) | |
| Amount claimed | Finance | Total claimed for reimbursement in a documentary credit, optionally followed by the date on which the claiming bank requests the amount to be at its disposal. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Amount of rainfall | Geography | The precipitation at a given place, expressed as the depth of water that falls on a horizontal plane in a specified period of time or during an event. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Amount of twist | Food & Agriculture | The number of turns per metre of a twisted yarn. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Amount outstanding | Finance | A) difference between the totals of debits and credits of an account; b) amount remaining payable or receivable as the result of partial payment or overpayment. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Amount paid by patient | Business | The amount on a claim that is to be paid by the beneficiary and/or sponsor, after the deduction of all amounts due by other sources (other insurance companies) and amounts to be paid by the government and/or government contractor. The patient paid amount will include patient deductibles due from the claim, patient cost shares, etc. A professional services claim has only a total amount due from the patient, so individual breakdowns for each service must be prorated using amounts allowed for the claim. (references) | |
| Amount remaining this cycle | Finance | Remaining available balance of amount authorized for the current cycle period. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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Topics by Level of Interest: amount | ||||
| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| Primary Insurance Amount | 15 | Amount (metadata) | 3 | |
| Amount of substance | 10 | Amount in controversy | 9 | |
| Amount in controversy | 9 | Amount of substance | 10 | |
| Amount realized | 9 | Amount realized | 9 | |
| Notional amount | 8 | Notional amount | 8 | |
| Amount (metadata) | 3 | Primary Insurance Amount | 15 | |
| Recovery amount | 2 | Recovery amount | 2 | |
Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses). | ||||
