| Name |
Quantity |
Description |
|---|
| Brace |
2 |
An old term of venery, meaning means ‘a pair of [some animal, especially birds] caught in the hunt’. Also a measure of length, originally representing a person's outstretched arms. |
| Couple |
2 |
A set of two of items of a type |
| Century |
100 |
Primarily denotes one hundred years, but occasionally used, especially in the context of competitive racing, to refer to something consisting of one hundred, as in a 100-mile race. |
| Dozen |
12 |
A collection of twelve things or units from Old French dozaine "a dozen, a number of twelve" in various usages, from doze (12c.) [2] |
| Baker's dozen |
13 |
From the notion that a baker would include an extra item in a batch of twelve so as not to be accused of shortchanging a customer |
| Half-dozen |
6 |
Six of something |
| Decade |
10 |
Primarily denotes ten years, but occasionally refers to ten of something |
| Duo |
2 |
In reference to people engaged in an endeavor together, as in musical performance (other words denote three or more people in the same context: trio, quartet, etc.) |
| Grand |
1,000 |
Slang for a thousand of some unit of currency, such as dollars or pounds. |
| Gross |
144 |
Twelve dozen |
| Score |
20 |
Presumably from the practice, in counting sheep or large herds of cattle, of counting orally from one to twenty, and making a score or notch on a stick, before proceeding to count the next twenty.[3][4] A distance of twenty yards in ancient archery and gunnery.[5] |
| Large |
1,000 |
Slang for one thousand |
| Myriad |
10,000 |
Loosely refers to a very large quantity |
| Pair |
2 |
Often in reference to identical objects |
| Trio |
3 |
Referring to people working or collaborating especially in musical performance |
| Few |
3 |
Small number of something |
| Quartet |
4 |
Referring to people working or collaborating especially in musical performance |
| Great gross |
1,728 |
A dozen gross (12x144) |
| Hat-trick |
3 |
The achievement of, a generally positive feat, three times in a game, or another achievement based on the number three [6] |
| Several |
3 |
Three or more but not many. |
| Small gross |
120 |
Ten dozen (10x12) [7] |
| Great hundred |
120 |
Ten dozen (10x12) or six score (6x20), also known as long-hundred or twelfty [8][9] |
| None |
0 |
Zero |
