quantify
/ˈkwɒntɪfʌɪ
/verb (quantifies, quantifying, quantified) [with object]
1Express or measure the quantity of: it is impossible to quantify the extent of the black economy...
- The UN's project assumes that a price can be put on the environment and that life can be quantified and measured.
- And while it is easy to quantify the cost so far, it is much harder to work out how big an impact it will have in future.
- These measures enabled researchers to quantify each individual act of violence in each film.
2 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’.Another variable related to set names or actions is whether the number quantifying a set precedes or follows it....
- A statement that quantifies a variable need not necessarily give the set from which the variable is to be taken.
Origin
Mid 16th century: from medieval Latin quantificare, from Latin quantus 'how much'.