qualifier number + unit a measured amount

rating count

How many ratings the aggregate rolls up (the 1,204 in '4.3 from 1,204 ratings'). A qualifier of the aggregate-rating property, a count on the generic counting dimension. A genuinely imported number: many buyers rate without writing a review, so it has no review-row source and is not derivable from the review host.

Rating count is a measured figure, given as a whole count of selling units.

It is a qualifier of aggregate rating — it has meaning only inside a aggregate rating statement, one per statement, never on its own. It belongs with aggregate rating to social proof — what buyers and critics say about it.

It is answered inside every aggregate rating statement, not as a standalone question on a kind.

answered with: №number + unit — a number paired with a unit drawn from an exhaustive unit vocabulary.
value domain: Quantity Units — the vocabulary its answers are drawn from.
qualifier of: aggregate rating — one per statement — it has meaning only inside that host's statement.

Answered inside every aggregate rating statement — not a standalone slot on any kind.