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
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.
—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
Unlike object detection or medical imaging, visual quality in art can’t be objectively quantified.
—Magnus Resch, ARTnews.com, 27 Apr. 2026
The cultural spillover into tourism is also quantified in the report.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 21 Apr. 2026
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
Unlike object detection or medical imaging, visual quality in art can’t be objectively quantified.
—Magnus Resch, ARTnews.com, 27 Apr. 2026
The cultural spillover into tourism is also quantified in the report.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 21 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for quantified
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Although no Florida study has yet measured the extent of competition between caimans, alligators and crocodiles, researchers say the possibility warrants closer monitoring.—
Sergio Candido,
CBS News,
16 June 2026
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To be absolutely clear, nobody, except maybe Melanie, is behaving honorably here, but a good Love Island story line isn’t measured in admirable behavior; it is measured in juice — and Melanie, Corbin, Kenzie, and Caleb have it.—
Kathleen Walsh,
Vulture,
16 June 2026
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Also, the trustees reveal that if the system’s financial condition were computed the same way that pension funds are required calculate their liabilities, the deficit would be greater.—
Bob Carlson,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2026
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From the in-flight data, the team computed apparent ice emission indices (ice crystals/kg) and nvPM EI for both fuels.—
Srishti Gupta,
Interesting Engineering,
29 Apr. 2026
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Among the tackles who have been weighed at the NFL Combine, none in the last nine years stepped on the scale lighter than 290 pounds.—
Sam McDowell,
Kansas City Star,
12 June 2026
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As the Justice Department weighed approval, a coalition of states led by California are preparing a lawsuit to block the deal that’s expected to be filed within a month.—
Winston Cho,
HollywoodReporter,
12 June 2026
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