as in measured
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to find the quantity or amount of (something)
It is difficult to quantify intelligence. Doctors have quantified the risks of smoking cigarettes. It is impossible to quantify the number of websites on the Internet.
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Recent Examples of quantified
Researchers quantified the Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI), a thermal stress index, essentially a feels-like temperature that accounts for temperature, humidity, wind speed, solar radiation and how the human body reacts to the environment, Emerton said.
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Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
22 June 2026
In a new study, our team of fire and climate scientists looked at two decades of wildfire activity in the West, from 2001 to 2024, and for the first time quantified the effect of heat waves on those fires.
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Mukesh Kumar,
The Conversation,
17 June 2026
Only 2 percent of investments have gone to circular businesses, according to estimates in the Circularity Gap Report Finance in 2025, the world’s first empirical study that quantified the financial streams to circular business models.
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Roy Stephen Canivel,
Footwear News,
2 June 2026
So instead ask better questions about things that cannot be easily quantified.
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Nir Bashan,
Forbes.com,
26 May 2026
Not everything that matters can be quantified.
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Hannah Keyser,
CNN Money,
15 May 2026
Instead, this latest effort represents the incremental progress essential to experimental science, where errors and uncertainties are identified and quantified, and future generations of scientists can build upon it.
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Big Think,
6 May 2026
In this case, the value is given by the ratio between costs and revenues, and it can been quantified in an objective way (although the calculation is very complex).
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Encyclopedia Britannica,
5 May 2026
Using the measured contrail ice EI in climate models, DLR quantified the net warming benefit.
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Srishti Gupta,
Interesting Engineering,
29 Apr. 2026
Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
22 June 2026
In a new study, our team of fire and climate scientists looked at two decades of wildfire activity in the West, from 2001 to 2024, and for the first time quantified the effect of heat waves on those fires.
—
Mukesh Kumar,
The Conversation,
17 June 2026
Only 2 percent of investments have gone to circular businesses, according to estimates in the Circularity Gap Report Finance in 2025, the world’s first empirical study that quantified the financial streams to circular business models.
—
Roy Stephen Canivel,
Footwear News,
2 June 2026
So instead ask better questions about things that cannot be easily quantified.
—
Nir Bashan,
Forbes.com,
26 May 2026
Not everything that matters can be quantified.
—
Hannah Keyser,
CNN Money,
15 May 2026
Instead, this latest effort represents the incremental progress essential to experimental science, where errors and uncertainties are identified and quantified, and future generations of scientists can build upon it.
—
Big Think,
6 May 2026
In this case, the value is given by the ratio between costs and revenues, and it can been quantified in an objective way (although the calculation is very complex).
—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
5 May 2026
Using the measured contrail ice EI in climate models, DLR quantified the net warming benefit.
—
Srishti Gupta,
Interesting Engineering,
29 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for quantified
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MoneyLion ranked the nation's 50 most affluent suburbs by household income, as measured in the 2024 American Community Survey.
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The smallest of these specimens measured just two centimeters.
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The approach uses the aspherical electron densities computed using quantum mechanics to arrive at accurate determinations of atomic positions.
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During inference, large language models store computed token relationships in this cache rather than recalculating them with every output.
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Global economies have already weighed energy options beyond the Middle East, as the war in Iran has put irreversible pressure on the oil industry, according to Karen Young, a researcher at Columbia University.
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How that is playing out in terms of stylistic difference will have to be weighed by bootleg-favoring Dylanologists who are more attuned to the subtleties of band interplay.
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