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QUANTIFY (quantified)

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IPA (US): 

Irregular inflected form: quantified  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

 Dictionary entry overview: What does quantify mean? 

QUANTIFY (verb)
  The verb QUANTIFY has 2 senses:

1. use as a quantifierplay

2. express as a number or measure or quantityplay

  Familiarity information: QUANTIFY used as a verb is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


QUANTIFY (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they quantify  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it quantifies  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: quantified  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: quantified  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: quantifying  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Use as a quantifier

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "quantify" is one way to...):

define; determine; fix; limit; set; specify (decide upon or fix definitely)

Domain category:

logic (the branch of philosophy that analyzes inference)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

quantification (a limitation imposed on the variables of a proposition (as by the quantifiers 'some' or 'all' or 'no'))


Sense 2

Meaning:

Express as a number or measure or quantity

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

measure; quantify

Context example:

Can you quantify your results?

Hypernyms (to "quantify" is one way to...):

carry; convey; express (serve as a means for expressing something)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "quantify"):

gauge (measure precisely and against a standard)

scale (measure with or as if with scales)

meter (measure with a meter)

pace; step (measure (distances) by pacing)

clock; time (measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time)

fathom; sound (measure the depth of (a body of water) with a sounding line)

titrate (measure by (the volume or concentration of solutions) by titration)

plumb (measure the depth of something)

librate; weigh (determine the weight of)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

quantification (the act of discovering or expressing the quantity of something)

quantity (the concept that something has a magnitude and can be represented in mathematical expressions by a constant or a variable)


 Context examples 


An assessment used to quantify and describe the colors within the visible spectrum of light.

(Colorimetry, NCI Thesaurus)

Device which quantifies an amount of radioactive substance.

(Dose Calibrator, NCI Thesaurus)

Any of several methods used to detect the presence of or quantify the formation of a thrombus in a specimen.

(Clot Detection, NCI Thesaurus)

A unit of measure to quantify the number of rectangular areas in a city surrounded by streets that the patient has traveled.

(Block Unit of Distance, NCI Thesaurus)

In this study, researchers aimed to quantify the risk of developing tMDS/AML, a rare but often fatal blood cancer, in patients treated with chemotherapy.

(Study finds elevated risk of certain rare blood cancers after chemotherapy for most solid tumors, National Institutes of Health)

The drug half-life that quantifies the accumulation ratio of a drug following multiple dosing.

(Effective Half-life, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

This agent may be of use in visualizing and quantifying the development of tumor vascularity in response to antiangiogenic agents.

(Fluciclatide F-18, NCI Thesaurus)

The resultant symmetry is quantified based upon the on the material properties of the construct.

(Nanotube Chirality, NCI Thesaurus)

A range of values used to quantify newborn motor development.

(Newborn Motor Scale, NCI Thesaurus)

After incorporation into hypoxic tumor cell DNA, I-124 IAZGP can be localized and quantified using positron emission tomography (PET), allowing a quantitative assessment of hypoxic tumor burden.

(Iodine I 124-Iodo-Azomycin Galactopyranoside, NCI Thesaurus)



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