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ABUNDANCE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The property of a more than adequate quantity or supply
Example:
an age of abundance
Synonyms:
abundance; copiousness; teemingness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("abundance" is a kind of...):
quantity (an adequate or large amount)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "abundance"):
amplitude; bountifulness; bounty (the property of copious abundance)
plenitude; plenteousness; plentifulness; plentitude; plenty (a full supply)
cornucopia; profuseness; profusion; richness (the property of being extremely abundant)
wealth (the quality of profuse abundance)
lushness; luxuriance; voluptuousness (the property of being lush and abundant and a pleasure to the senses)
overabundance; overmuch; overmuchness; superabundance (a quantity that is more than what is appropriate)
Antonym:
scarcity (a small and inadequate amount)
Derivation:
abound (be abundant or plentiful; exist in large quantities)
abundant (present in great quantity)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("abundance" is a kind of...):
ratio (the relative magnitudes of two quantities (usually expressed as a quotient))
Domain category:
chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)
Sense 3
Meaning:
(physics) the ratio of the number of atoms of a specific isotope of an element to the total number of isotopes present
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("abundance" is a kind of...):
ratio (the relative magnitudes of two quantities (usually expressed as a quotient))
Domain category:
natural philosophy; physics (the science of matter and energy and their interactions)
Context examples:
They analyzed the abundance of microbes throughout the samples and found that reef sites with more algae had more harmful pathogens, or disease-causing microbes.
(Too much algae and too many microbes threaten coral reefs, NSF)
Unlike the Milky Way, this semi-spiral collection of a few tens-of-billions of stars lacks our galaxy’s rich abundance of heavy elements, like carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen.
(Stellar Embryos in Nearby Dwarf Galaxy Contain Surprisingly Complex Organic Molecules, National Radio Astronomy Observatory)
Monoclonal immunoglobulin (M protein) is found in abundance in patients who have multiple myeloma.
(M protein, NCI Thesaurus)
The measured value of a response in a recorded image produced by the intensity, abundance, or concentration of source materials.
(Imaging Signal, NCI Thesaurus)
Splenic pulp seen grossly as a reddish brown substance, due to its abundance of red blood cells, consisting of splenic sinuses and the tissue intervening between them (splenic cords).
(Murine Red Pulp, NCI Thesaurus)
The tumor has a golden-yellow color because of the abundance of intracytoplasmic lipid.
(Non-Hereditary Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)
A decrease in the abundance of plasmalogens has been observed in some neurological disorders such as Alzheimer's disease.
(Plasmalogen Synthesis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
A null cell pituitary gland adenoma, characterized by the presence of eosinophilic cells and mitochondrial abundance.
(Pituitary Gland Oncocytic Adenoma, NCI Thesaurus)
A morphologic finding referring to the presence of darkly stained nuclei due to abundance of DNA on hematoxylin-eosin stained sections.
(Hyperchromasia, NCI Thesaurus)
People with mutation or deletion of the beta-subunit gene have Beta-thalassemias resulting from an over-abundance of alpha subunits and their precipitation.
(Hemoglobin Chaperone Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
