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

But growing, quantifiable success doesn’t mean these artists are getting too big for their britches. —Richard Villegas, Rolling Stone, 1 Apr. 2024

Understanding User Ratings User ratings, typically depicted in the form of stars ranging from one to five, are a quantifiable measure of customer satisfaction and experience with a product or service. —Laura Kegley, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024

These companies think so The framework also incorporates measures that the European Commission proposed in 2022, including requirements that carbon removal is quantifiable and long term. —Justine Calma, The Verge, 20 Feb. 2024

Enterprises will also struggle to define AI’s investment-to-value ratios and quantifiable impact. —John Hergert, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024

But another telling indicator – effort, or lack thereof – is quantifiable. —Mirjam Swanson, Orange County Register, 31 Jan. 2024

Unlike demographics, which focus on quantifiable traits like age or gender, psychographics delve into the qualitative aspects of an individual's behaviour and mindset. —Angelina Villa-Clarke, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023

Good Moral Character: While not a quantifiable requirement like education or experience, demonstrating good moral character is essential for CPA candidates. —Bryce Welker, Miami Herald, 21 Feb. 2024

This is a key part of the Starship story and a part of the program where there's a quantifiable public interest. —Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 5 Oct. 2023

Word History

First Known Use

1862, in the meaning defined above