MEANING
1. The process of measuring or expressing the amount, size, or degree of something in numbers.
2. The use of expressions such as all or some to specify how widely a statement applies.
Use it for
describing the numerical measurement of an abstract concept; discussing what can and cannot be measured; examining how experiences are translated into numerical indicatorsSeparates assigning numerical amounts from qualitative description, and distinguishes quantity in measurement from scope in logic. Academic functions: Research / Methodology, Evidence, Argumentation.
Words that belong together
- the quantification of risk
- precise quantification
- resist quantification
On the page
The quantification of unpaid care requires explicit decisions about what counts as work.
Interviewees described forms of exclusion that resist straightforward quantification.
Universal quantification makes the proposition vulnerable to a single counterexample.
Changing the quantification from all households to some households weakens the claim.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- quantification
Usage notes
Normally uncountable. Quantifications is possible for distinct procedures or representations, but quantification of + object is the usual academic pattern. Register: formal. Commonness: moderately common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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