quantify
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Definition of quantify
1a(1) : to limit by a quantifier
(2) : to bind by prefixing a quantifier
b : to make explicit the logical quantity of
2 : to determine, express, or measure the quantity of
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One day Oleinik might meet with a kidney doctor about deep learning algorithms to quantify the extent of kidney damage, and another day a biologist about optimizing images of sea urchins. — Cindy Atoji Keene, BostonGlobe.com, "Facing a fear leads to love for the language of computing," 6 July 2018 But maybe sometimes there is no explanation for what happens during a baseball season, no matter how hard people try to quantify every last detail. — Jared Diamond, WSJ, "Baseball’s Luckiest Team Doesn’t Think It’s Luck," 3 July 2018 However, just our presence alone can have important behavioral impacts on wildlife, even if these effects aren't immediately apparent or easy to quantify. — Kaitlyn Gaynor, CNN, "To avoid humans, more wildlife now work the night shift," 14 June 2018 The same survey question, when quantifying the benefits of the project, also uses a much lower construction jobs number -- 2,000 -- than Jordan Cove's most recent estimate, which is three times higher. — Ted Sickinger, OregonLive.com, "Survey: Oregonians oppose Coos Bay gas export project," 26 May 2018 Irresistible Scent That summer, Douglas captured dozens of crested auklets on the Shumagin Islands and inserted them, one by one, into a specialized chamber to quantify their scent. — Kevin Schafer, National Geographic, "These Birds Make Their Own Citrus-Scented Cologne," 25 May 2018 Upon Goblets of White Wine: To quantify the white wine consumed across all of Nancy Meyers’s oeuvre would be like asking me how many drops are in the ocean. — Allison P. Davis, The Cut, "Book Club Is Basically a Nancy Meyers Movie," 18 May 2018 Various studies have attempted to quantify the energy used in bitcoin mining with relatively different results. — NBC News, "Study claims Bitcoin uses as much energy as Ireland. Not so fast, experts say.," 17 May 2018 Reputational cost is impossible to quantify, but the literal cost to U.C. Berkeley, in security fees alone, was likely to exceed a million dollars. — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, "How Social-Media Trolls Turned U.C. Berkeley Into a Free-Speech Circus," 23 May 2016These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'quantify.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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quantify
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English Language Learners Definition of quantify
: to find or calculate the quantity or amount of (something)
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