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Definition of quantify
quantified
;quantifying
transitive verb
1a (1) : to limit by a quantifier (2) : to bind by prefixing a quantifierb : to make explicit the logical quantity of
2 : to determine, express, or measure the quantity of
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Examples of quantify in a Sentence
It is difficult to quantify intelligence.
Doctors have quantified the risks of smoking cigarettes.
It is impossible to quantify the number of Web sites on the Internet.
Recent Examples of quantify from the Web
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As the hubby, Daniel is a genial but proper insurance company executive in a play where one can’t actually begin to assess, quantify or control the future.
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The purpose of the commission is to quantify different forms of voter fraud and registration fraud and offer solutions.
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To really drive this point home, let’s roughly quantify return on investment for these 11 stars.
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The FIU survey by Timothy F. Page, an associate professor at the Robert Stempel College of Public Health & Social Work, is the first of its kind to quantify anecdotal reports of business impacts caused by Zika in Wynwood.
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He has been given props by teammates, coaches and management for being a positive influence in the locker room but if Miller can't stay on the field, intangibles are more difficult to quantify.
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To quantify the rankings, the report used objective data as research and venture capital funding, genomics patents and the number of graduates with a genomics education.
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Her argument, couched in humanistic and artistic terms, has just been starkly quantified by the algorithm.
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No other team has done that before, which makes the magnitude of the potential accomplishment hard to quantify.
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Origin and Etymology of quantify
Medieval Latin quantificare, from Latin quantus how much
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: to find or calculate the quantity or amount of (something)
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