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noun

Amount n.

The sum total of two or more sums or quantities; the aggregate; the whole quantity; a totality; as, the amount of 7 and 9 is 16; the amount of a bill; the amount of this year's revenue.

The effect, substance, value, significance, or result; the sum; as, the amount of the testimony is this. "The whole amount of that enormous fame."

verb

Amount v. t. To signify; to amount to. (Obs.)

Amount v. i. (past & past part. amounted; pres. part. amounting)

To go up; to ascend. (Obs.) "So up he rose, and thence amounted straight."

To rise or reach by an accumulation of particular sums or quantities; to come (to) in the aggregate or whole; with to or unto.

To rise, reach, or extend in effect, substance, or influence; to be equivalent; to come practically (to); as, the testimony amounts to very little.

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