as in measures
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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 quantifies
Flagstaff’s Buffalo Park, just a couple miles from downtown, measures about a 4 on the Bortle scale, which quantifies the level of light pollution.
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Emily Elconin, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2025
The study, published in the journal Energy Storage Materials, quantifies the impact of this technique on ion transport.
—Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 27 Nov. 2025
One of the simplest types of measure — the Lebesgue measure — quantifies a set’s length.
—Joseph Howlett, Quanta Magazine, 21 Nov. 2025
As the nation debates health care affordability in the wake of a federal government shutdown over Affordable Care Act health insurance costs and subsidies, West Health officials said the survey quantifies Americans worries and struggles to pay for health care.
—Ken Alltucker, USA Today, 18 Nov. 2025
Now, a new study quantifies the health impacts of all that smoke.
—Alejandra Borunda, NPR, 19 Sep. 2025
This image illustrates the 9-point Bortle scale, which quantifies the impact of light pollution on the darkness of a night sky at a particular location.
—IEEE Spectrum, 16 Sep. 2025
Emily Elconin, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2025
The study, published in the journal Energy Storage Materials, quantifies the impact of this technique on ion transport.
—Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 27 Nov. 2025
One of the simplest types of measure — the Lebesgue measure — quantifies a set’s length.
—Joseph Howlett, Quanta Magazine, 21 Nov. 2025
As the nation debates health care affordability in the wake of a federal government shutdown over Affordable Care Act health insurance costs and subsidies, West Health officials said the survey quantifies Americans worries and struggles to pay for health care.
—Ken Alltucker, USA Today, 18 Nov. 2025
Now, a new study quantifies the health impacts of all that smoke.
—Alejandra Borunda, NPR, 19 Sep. 2025
This image illustrates the 9-point Bortle scale, which quantifies the impact of light pollution on the darkness of a night sky at a particular location.
—IEEE Spectrum, 16 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for quantifies
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The bag measures about 20 inches tall, 13 inches wide, and nine inches deep, which fits within most airlines’ carry-on size requirements.—
Olivia Young,
Travel + Leisure,
8 Feb. 2026
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My nurse practitioner ordered a PSA test, or protein specific antigen, which measures a chemical produced by the prostate in your bloodstream.—
Jerry McCormick,
USA Today,
8 Feb. 2026
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Officials say Torres is 5 feet 3 inches tall, weighs 240 pounds, and has brown eyes and black hair.—
Nick Lentz,
CBS News,
8 Feb. 2026
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Compared with systems already in service, the design uses about half as many parts and weighs more than 20 percent less, while also delivering measurable gains in performance, including higher top speed and longer operating range for the aircraft it is fitted to.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
8 Feb. 2026
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During training, each GPU computes a mathematical operation called a gradient on its own batch of data.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
10 Jan. 2026
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Outside of the payrolls and CPI report, the BLS also computes data on import and export prices, job openings, producer prices, productivity and other metrics.—
Jeff Cox,
CNBC,
14 Nov. 2025
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Yet seldom is heard a discouraging word when Darnold assesses what happened in New York, Carolina, San Francisco, or Minnesota.—
Jerry McDonald,
Mercury News,
5 Feb. 2026
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The study assesses many outputs relative to institutional inputs or country averages to reduce bias from differing contexts.—
TIME Staff,
Time,
28 Jan. 2026
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Though specific numbers are difficult to come by, Suzanne Ellingham, event director of London’s Source Fashion trade show, estimates that fewer than 400 manufacturers employing more than 20 people remain in the United Kingdom.—
Jasmin Malik Chua,
Sourcing Journal,
6 Feb. 2026
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The report estimates that the program will have over 17,000 participants in the 2025-26 school year and over 18,300 in the 2026-27 school year.—
Emma Murphy,
Oklahoma Voice,
6 Feb. 2026
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“Quantifies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quantifies. Accessed 11 Feb. 2026.
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