quantifiable

adjective

quan·​ti·​fi·​a·​ble ˌkwän-tə-ˈfī-ə-bəl 

: able to be expressed as an amount, quantity, or numerical value : capable of being quantified

quantifiable risks/benefits

There's a school of thought in Hollywood that good comedy is quantifiable, that you can measure a successful script or pilot on a punchlines-per-page or laughs-per-minute basis.

—Daniel Fienberg

These companies are ranked based on their score in Entrepreneur's 2016 Franchise 500, which is determined by objective, quantifiable criteria, including system size, growth and financial strength and stability.

—Tracy Stapp Herold

quantifiably

ˌkwän-tə-ˈfī-ə-blē 

adverb

Those who offer medical care to the children of poverty find themselves using their research projects to demonstrate that poverty is not only damaging, but quantifiably damaging to infants and children, searching for specific indices of growth and development, individual health and family function, which will allow them to measure the parameters of growing up at the bottom of our society.

—Perri Klass

Examples of quantifiable in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

This new accounting system emphasized recording every merchant’s activities in a precise, objective, quantifiable way that could be verified by anyone, anywhere. —Sigal Samuel, Vox, 6 Jan. 2025

The issue becomes more challenging when the violation is not a simple quantifiable rule violation but involves a degree of judgment. —Sheldon Jacobson, Boston Herald, 3 Jan. 2025

Readers, or those who want to devote more time to reading, tend to set some quantifiable intentions for the year to come. —Ilana Masad, The Atlantic, 3 Jan. 2025

Clearly expressed, quantifiable goals help managers to evaluate performance free from micromanagement. —Corey Digi, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1862, in the meaning defined above