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quan⋅ti⋅fy

  [kwon-tuh-fahy]
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–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')   
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

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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quantification

in logic, the attachment of signs of quantity to the predicate or subject of a proposition. The universal quantifier, symbolized by (-) or (-), where the blank is filled by a variable, is used to express that the formula following holds for all values of the particular variable quantified. The existential quantifier, symbolized (-), expresses that the formula following holds for some (at least one) value of that quantified variable.

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