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quantification
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun quantification has 2 senses
- quantification(n = noun.cognition) - a limitation imposed on the variables of a proposition (as by the quantifiers `some' or `all' or `no'); is a kind of limitation, restriction
- quantification(n = noun.act) - the act of discovering or expressing the quantity of something; is a kind of measure, measurement, measuring, mensuration
is a part of functional calculus, predicate calculus
Derived form verb quantify1
has particulars: gradation, graduation
Derived form verb quantify2
CIDE DICTIONARY
quantification, n. [See Quantity.].
Modification by a reference to quantity; the introduction of the element of quantity. [1913 Webster]
"The quantification of the predicate belongs in part to Sir William Hamilton; viz., in its extension to negative propositions."
[1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
quantification
accounting, appraisal, appraisement, approximation, assessment, assize, assizement, calculation, census, computation, correction, counting, dactylonomy, determination, enumeration, estimate, estimation, evaluation, foliation, gauging, instrumentation, inventorying, measure, measurement, measuring, mensuration, metric system, numbering, numeration, pagination, quantization, rating, survey, surveying, tallying, telemetering, telemetry, telling, triangulation, valuation
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