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• quantify — [[t]kwɒ̱ntɪfaɪ[/t]] quantifies, quantifying, quantified VERB: usu with brd neg If you try to quantify something, you try to calculate how much of it there is. [V n] It is difficult to quantify an exact figure as firms are reluctant to declare… …   English dictionary

• quantify — quan‧ti‧fy [ˈkwɒntfaɪ ǁ ˈkwɑːn ] verb quantified PTandPP [transitive] to measure something and express it as a number, especially something that is difficult to measure: • Quantifying the effect of advertising on sales is difficult. quantifiable …   Financial and business terms

• quantify — / kwɒntɪfaɪ/ verb ♦ to quantify the effect of something to show the effect of something in figures ● It is impossible to quantify the effect of the new legislation on our turnover …   Dictionary of banking and finance

• quantify — quan|ti|fy [ˈkwɔntıfaı US ˈkwa:n ] v past tense and past participle quantified present participle quantifying third person singular quantifies [T] [Date: 1500 1600; : Medieval Latin; Origin: quantificare, from Latin quantus; QUANTITY] to… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• quantify — UK [ˈkwɒntɪfaɪ] / US [ˈkwɑntəˌfaɪ] verb [transitive] Word forms quantify : present tense I/you/we/they quantify he/she/it quantifies present participle quantifying past tense quantified past participle quantified formal to measure or describe… …   English dictionary

• quantify — verb (T) to measure something and express it as a number, especially something that is difficult to measure: Life has got worse for a lot of people, but in ways that are hard to quantify. quantifiable adjective: The damage caused by pollution is… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• quantify — quan|ti|fy [ kwantə,faı ] verb transitive FORMAL to measure or describe something as a quantity: The benefits are difficult to quantify …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• quantify — quantifiable, adj. quantifiably, adv. quantification, n. /kwon teuh fuy /, v.t., quantified, quantifying. 1. to determine, indicate, or express the quantity of. 2. Logic. to make explicit the quantity of (a proposition). 3. to give quantity to… …   Universalium

• quantify — [ˈkwɒntɪˌfaɪ] verb [T] formal to measure or describe something as a quantity quantifiable [ˈkwɒntɪˌfaɪəb(ə)l] adj quantification [ˌkwɒntɪfɪˈkeɪʃ(ə)n] noun [U] …   Dictionary for writing and speaking English

• quantify — quan•ti•fy [[t]ˈkwɒn təˌfaɪ[/t]] v. t. fied, fy•ing 1) to determine, indicate, or express the quantity of 2) pho logic to make explicit the quantity of (a proposition) 3) to give quantity to (something regarded as having only quality) quan′ti•fi… …   From formal English to slang

• Quantification — has two distinct meanings.In mathematics and empirical science, it refers to human acts, known as counting and measuring that map human sense observations and experiences into members of some set of numbers. Quantification in this sense is… …   Wikipedia