quantify
pronunciation
How to pronounce quantify in British English:
UK [ˈkwɒntɪfaɪ]
How to pronounce quantify in American English:
US [ˈkwɑːntɪfaɪ]
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- Verb:
- use as a quantifier
- express as a number or measure or quantity
Word Origin
- quantify (v.)
- 1840, from Medieval Latin quantificare, from Latin quantus "as much," correlative pronominal adjective (see quantity) + facere "to make" (see factitious). Literal sense of "determine the quantity of, measure" is from 1878. Related: Quantified; quantifying.
Example
- 1. Goldman sachs has even tried to quantify the damage .
- 2. How do you quantify change ?
- 3. Both these effects are impossible to quantify .
- 4. Yet that is difficult to quantify .
- 5. In his paper mr takats seeks to quantify this effect .