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QUANTIFY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: quantified   

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Express as a number or measure or quantity

Example:

Can you quantify your results?

Synonyms:

measure; quantify

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "quantify" is one way to...):

carry; convey; express (serve as a means for expressing something)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "quantify"):

gauge (measure precisely and against a standard)

scale (measure with or as if with scales)

meter (measure with a meter)

pace; step (measure (distances) by pacing)

clock; time (measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time)

fathom; sound (measure the depth of (a body of water) with a sounding line)

titrate (measure by (the volume or concentration of solutions) by titration)

plumb (measure the depth of something)

librate; weigh (determine the weight of)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

quantification (the act of discovering or expressing the quantity of something)

quantity (the concept that something has a magnitude and can be represented in mathematical expressions by a constant or a variable)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Use as a quantifier

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "quantify" is one way to...):

define; determine; fix; limit; set; specify (decide upon or fix definitely)

Domain category:

logic (the branch of philosophy that analyzes inference)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

quantification (a limitation imposed on the variables of a proposition (as by the quantifiers 'some' or 'all' or 'no'))

Credits

 Context examples: 

A statistic which assigns a single number to several individual statistics in order to quantify trends and evaluate a value or quantity as compared with a standard or a base value.

(Index Value, NCI Thesaurus)

Upon PET imaging, alphaVbeta3 integrin-expressing tumor cells can be visualized and expression levels can be quantified.

(Gallium Ga 68-labeled BNOTA-PRGD2, NCI Thesaurus)

Using statistical methods, machine-learning, models and satellite data, they quantified how much soil nutrients and climate factors limit the ability of plants and trees to absorb extra carbon dioxide.

(Study Suggests Trees' Potential to Slow Global Warming in Next 100 Years, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

This is a measurement that quantifies the maximum concentration of an experimental substance or drug in the plasma or a target organ after dose administration.

(Cmax, NCI Thesaurus)

Those who had been treated with probiotic supplements lost significantly more weight – but the authors did not quantify how much.

(Supplements of 'Good Bacteria' Can Enhance Weight Loss in Dieters, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Absorption of ultraviolet radiation by Phenylalanine is used to quantify protein amounts.

(Phenylalanine, NCI Thesaurus)

However, we are still far from quantifying this impact.

(Researchers Create New Model of Ecosystem Hidden Beneath Earth, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The scientists then analyzed this information to quantify what kind of turbulence exists in the region, which provided the final smoking gun of an HFA.

(Messenger spots giant space weather effects at Mercury, NASA)

Based on a standard neurological examination, the Expanded Disability Status Scale quantifies disability in seven Functional Systems (plus "Other") and assigns a Functional System Score in each.

(Expanded Disability Status Scale, NCI Thesaurus)

Qualitative bioassays are used for assessing the physical effects of a substance that may not be quantified, such as abnormal development or deformity.

(Device Bioassay Evaluation Method, Food and Drug Administration)