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quan·ti·fy       [kwon-tuh-fahy] Pronunciation Key
–verb (used with object), -fied, -fy·ing.
1.to determine, indicate, or express the quantity of.
2.Logic. to make explicit the quantity of (a proposition).
3.to give quantity to (something regarded as having only quality).
[Origin: 1830–40; < ML quantificāre, equiv. to L quant(us) how much + -ificāre -ify]

—Related forms
quan·ti·fi·a·ble, adjective
quan·ti·fi·a·bly, adverb
quan·ti·fi·ca·tion, noun
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quan·ti·fy       (kwŏn'tə-fī')  Pronunciation Key 
tr.v.   quan·ti·fied, quan·ti·fy·ing, quan·ti·fies
  1. To determine or express the quantity of.
  2. Logic To limit the variables of (a proposition) by prefixing an operator such as all or some.


[Medieval Latin quantificāre : Latin quantus, how great; see quantity + Latin -ficāre, -fy.]

quan'ti·fi'a·ble adj., quan'ti·fi·ca'tion (-fĭ-kā'shən) n.
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quantification

noun
1. a limitation imposed on the variables of a proposition (as by the quantifiers 'some' or 'all' or 'no') 
2. the act of discovering or expressing the quantity of something 

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Quantification

Quan`ti*fi*ca"tion\, n. [See Quantity.] Modification by a reference to quantity; the introduction of the element of quantity.

The quantification of the predicate belongs in part to Sir William Hamilton; viz., in its extension to negative propositions. --De Quincey.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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