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quantification

quantification

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Words like 'all' and 'some' that show how many things a statement talks about
  • noun
  • /ˌkwɒntɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/
  • Specialized
translation icon : cuantificación
  • The quantification of survey results helps researchers understand public opinion more clearly.
  • form of quantification

Examples

  • In a democracy, the convictions of the public ultimately depend on persuasion, which resists quantification.

    Blog text (32)
  • The discrepancy between the posterior distribution and the true value may not always matter for uncertainty quantification in the prediction.

    Academic text (2018)
  • Perhaps the bias for statistical techniques, survey research methods, and other forms of quantification can be understood in this light.

    Academic text (2000)
  • Numbers and other forms of quantification are pervasive in the social sciences.

    Academic text (2000)
  • Third, quantification allows us to create better programs with improved speed, ease, cost, and scale through objective evaluation of how they're performing.

  • Freedom House's quantification of political liberalism has further expanded the breadth of comparison and correlation.

    Academic text (2007)
  • Habituality has been much discussed in connection with the semantics of genericity and quantification.

    Academic text (2006)
  • For example, principles of number quantification, inversion, and estimation emerge from a combination of inherent and experiential factors.

    Academic text (2005)
  • In mathematics, quantification is essential for expressing variables in a precise manner.

  • The study's quantification of data revealed significant trends that were previously unnoticed.

Surface Forms

Morphology

quantification = quantify (semi-transparent) = quant + ify + ation

The noun is regularly formed from 'quantify', but its specialized logical sense is not fully predictable for an average learner from the base alone.

Etymology

The word quantification comes from the Latin root quant- meaning 'how much' or 'how many', the same root as quantity. In logic, quantification is the process of adding that 'how many' information to a variable using words like 'some', 'all', or 'no', so it tells you which values are included.