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| a·bun·dance [ ə búndənss ] (plural a·bun·danc·es) |
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1. large amount: a more than plentiful quantity of something
  the abundance of art treasures in Florence
food and drink in abundance
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2. affluence: a lifestyle with more than adequate material provisions
living in careless abundance
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3. fullness: a fullness of spirit that overflows
the abundance of her soul
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4. chemistry geology rate of incidence: the extent to which an element is present in the earth or in a rock
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5. physics proportion of isotope atoms: the proportion of one isotope of an element, expressed by number of atoms, to the total quantity of the element
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| [14th century. Via Old French< Latin abundantia< abundant- (see abundant)] |
