quantification
pronunciation
How to pronounce quantification in British English:
UK [ˌkwɒntɪfɪ'keɪʃn]
How to pronounce quantification in American English:
US [ˌkwɒntɪfɪ'keɪʃn]
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- Noun:
- a limitation imposed on the variables of a proposition (as by the quantifiers `some' or `all' or `no')
- the act of discovering or expressing the quantity of something
Word Origin
- quantification (n.)
- 1850, noun of action from quantify.
Example
- 1. Quantification can create the illusion of precision .
- 2. Bogus quantification attempts to compress complex problems and analyses into single observations .
- 3. Quantification , he wrote , " is more readily contestable and likely to be contested . "
- 4. Nowhere is that temptation more evident than in history , where quantification and precise explanation is so incredibly enticing-and so politically useful .
- 5. This is not just a matter of technical accuracy the arbitrariness of the quantification process produces observations with very large errors and levels of uncertainty .