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(quantifies, quantifying, quantified) If you try to quantify something, you try to calculate how much of it there is. It is difficult to quantify an exact figure as firms are reluctant to declare their losses. VERB: usu with brd-neg, V n • quantification Others are more susceptible to attempts at quantification. N-UNCOUNT
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transitive verb (-fied; -fying) Etymology: Medieval Latin quantificare, from Latin quantus how much Date: circa 1840 1. a. (1) to limit by a quantifier (2) to bind by prefixing a quantifier b. to make explicit the logical quantity of 2. to determine, express, or measure the quantity of • quantifiable adjective ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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v.tr. (-ies, -ied) 1 determine the quantity of. 2 measure or express as a quantity. 3 Logic define the application of (a term or proposition) by the use of all, some, etc., e.g. 'for all x if x is A then x is B'. Derivatives quantifiable adj. quantifiability n. quantification n. quantifier n. Etymology: med.L quantificare (as QUANTAL) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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~ v to measure something and express it as a number, especially something that is difficult to measure (Life has got worse for a lot of people, but in ways that are hard to quantify.) - quantifiable adj (The damage caused by pollution is not easily quantifiable.) - quantification n ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- c.1840, as a term in logic, from M.L. quantificare, from L. quantus "how much" + facere "to make." ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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