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A limitation imposed on the variables of a proposition (as by the quantifiers `some' or `all' or `no')
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quantification
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In mathematics and empirical science , quantification (or quantitation ) is the act of counting and measuring that maps human sense observations and experiences into members of some set of numbers . Quantification in this sense is fundamental to the scientific ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Quantification \Quan`ti*fi*ca"tion\, n. [See Quantity .] Modification by a reference to quantity; the introduction of the element of quantity. The quantification of the predicate belongs in part to Sir William Hamilton; viz., in its extension to negative ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1850, noun of action from quantify .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. 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
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 the act of quantifying 2 (context economics English) the expression of an economic activity in monetary units 3 (context logic English) a limitation that is imposed on the variables of a proposition
Usage examples of quantification.
This is called the Quantification of the Predicate, and leads to some modifications of Deductive Logic which will be referred to hereafter.
Quantification after Quantification came within a point or two of testing positive, but none quite reached critical level.
In terror of hubris, Isaac sought any alternative than to believe what was looking more and more like the truth: that he had solved the problem of mathematic representation, quantification, of crisis energy.
The Trojan Horses had been heavily indoctrinated with a basic common grammar and quantification rules in the hope that they would at least continue to talk comprehensibly to the outside world.
Despite enormous advances in the technology of quantification, it remained an abstract, something that still could not yet be measured or weighed.
With numbers: that is, with magnitudes and quantification, with all that scientific observations are about.
That problem is resolved by the theory we meet in the next chapter, called quantification theory.
Before we understood quantification, that might have sounded weird, as if the human race sprung out of Nothing.
The Ecolitan shook his head, not wanting to think about all the other quantifications they had left to do.