quantification

quantify | American Dictionary

quantify
verb[ T ]
us/ˈkwɑn·təˌfɑɪ/
to measure or judge the amount or number of something:
It’s difficult to quantify how many people will have to pay higher taxes.

quantify | Business English

quantify
verb[ T ]
uk /ˈkwɒntɪfaɪ/us
to measure the size or amount of something and express it as a number:
difficult/hard/impossible to quantifyThe economic costs of IT complexity are hard to quantify.
He said it was too early to quantify the total financial impact of the hurricanes.

quantification

noun[ U ]
The question was not simply one of quantification of damages, it was one of liability.

Examples of quantify

quantify
There is no theoretical account of the mental representations that are changing within their postulated dynamic processes, and how these changes are to be quantified.
We then quantify the stretching by considering the total stretch suffered during this finite period of time.
Although many of the questions asked were open-ended and were analysed using thematic coding techniques, in other cases it was possible to quantify the results.
Finally, and just as before, the size of the ideal risk (7.3) quantifies the precision of nonlinear approximation.
Specifically, the extent to which different maps contain the same information is quantified.
To quantify the significance of this additional synchrony we used sparse noise stimuli.
Some pupils were able to quantify their work systematically; others were shown how to use some of the graphical note editing screens.
With our present knowledge it is not possible to quantify the contribution of each of these processes in reducing the ablation depth exactly.
As compared with measuring cell mass, quantifying adhesive strength is an even less developed area.
This comparison can be quantified using a statistical measure of central tendency and dispersion.
Note that free variables are considered to be universally quantified.
Vegetable producers, following years of experience, also quantify the risk of such events.
The difference between unsegregated and segregated retinal projections can be further quantified by analyzing the fluorescence intensity of individual pixels.
Here we restrict ourselves to quantify the strength of the thermal lensing and hence fit a parabola to the refractive index profiles.
However, none of the postmortem studies quantified volumetric measurements.
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