quantifiable

adjective

quan·​ti·​fi·​a·​ble ˌkwän-tə-ˈfī-ə-bəl 

: able to be expressed as an amount, quantity, or numerical value : capable of being quantified

quantifiable risks/benefits

There's a school of thought in Hollywood that good comedy is quantifiable, that you can measure a successful script or pilot on a punchlines-per-page or laughs-per-minute basis.

—Daniel Fienberg

These companies are ranked based on their score in Entrepreneur's 2016 Franchise 500, which is determined by objective, quantifiable criteria, including system size, growth and financial strength and stability.

—Tracy Stapp Herold

quantifiably

ˌkwän-tə-ˈfī-ə-blē 

adverb

Those who offer medical care to the children of poverty find themselves using their research projects to demonstrate that poverty is not only damaging, but quantifiably damaging to infants and children, searching for specific indices of growth and development, individual health and family function, which will allow them to measure the parameters of growing up at the bottom of our society.

—Perri Klass

Examples of quantifiable in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Bruce Exhibits Measurable Dominance Across Multiple Metrics The study documented Bruce’s alpha position not only through combat outcomes but through quantifiable social and physiological indicators. —Samantha Agate, Charlotte Observer, 22 Apr. 2026

What’s often left out of the health optimization conversation, however, is a core pillar of aging well that isn’t so easily quantifiable on your health-tracking wearable. —Alexa Mikhail, Flow Space, 20 Apr. 2026

When an industry generates large, quantifiable social costs, a small and predictable share of its profits would be directed toward mitigating those costs. —Nicolas S. Rohatyn, Mercury News, 16 Apr. 2026

Agibot claims the deployment has demonstrated strong, quantifiable performance across key industrial metrics, including throughput of up to 310 units per hour, cycle times of approximately 19–20 seconds per operation, and a success rate exceeding 99 percent in continuous operation. —Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 15 Apr. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1862, in the meaning defined above