quantify
verb
quan·​ti·​fy
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quantified;
quantifying
Definition of quantify
1a(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
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Other Words from quantify
quantifiable
\ ˌkwän-​tə-​ˈfī-​ə-​bəl
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adjective
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adjective
Examples of quantify in a Sentence
It is difficult to quantify intelligence.
Doctors have quantified the risks of smoking cigarettes.
It is impossible to quantify the number of Web sites on the Internet.
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Recent Examples on the Web
However, actually quantifying improvements in footballing skill is hard. — Fox News, "French mayor dies after trying to stop illegal dumping: report," 8 Aug. 2019 Varying transplantation methods aside, how does one control, quantify, and standardize poop? — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, "One dead after poop transplant gone wrong, FDA warns," 14 June 2019 The number of survivors -- from those who were at the scene, to the family and friends left grieving -- is nearly impossible to quantify. — Madeleine Stix, CNN, "Three years after the Pulse shooting, she remembers every moment," 12 June 2019 The beautiful messiness of humanity cannot be quantified into data columns, programmed, scaled, and engineered. — Jessica Rosenworcel, WIRED, "To Really 'Disrupt,' Tech Needs to Listen to Actual Researchers," 26 June 2019 There is more to assessing a complex system than looking at its growth, efficiency, and the handful of other qualities that can be quantified and thus measured. — Wired, "Philanthropy and the Challenge of Quantifying Success," 30 July 2019 The lawsuit did not quantify how many violations of each type occurred. — Marco Santana, orlandosentinel.com, "Deltona man started 3 firms that helped clients dodge EPA regulations, lawsuit says," 17 June 2019 In addition to growing food and materials, NASA bioengineers are developing systems to quantify, capture and recycle everything astronauts use, eat and emit, including body fluids. — Peter Fimrite, SFChronicle.com, "Long-term space journeys to allow humans to become almost completely self-sufficient," 8 June 2019 The proximate causes of the bond-yield decline are numerous, interrelated and hard to quantify. — Sam Goldfarb, WSJ, "Bond-Yield Plunge Confounds the World’s Economy," 23 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'quantify.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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More Definitions for quantify
quantify
verb
English Language Learners Definition of quantify
formal
: to find or calculate the quantity or amount of (something)
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