quantification

noun

quan·​ti·​fi·​ca·​tion ˌkwän-tə-fə-ˈkā-shən How to pronounce quantification (audio)
: the operation of quantifying
quantificational adjective
quantificationally adverb

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In the era of quantification, where everything about the game is tracked and, ergo, managed, Posey is beginning his career in personnel looking to recreate the sport’s secret sauce. Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 24 Mar. 2025 Woods is accused of altering and deleting quantification values, rerunning batches of DNA without documentation and hiding potential contamination. Doha Madani, NBC News, 23 Jan. 2025 That said, the logic of an impact is solid, even if quantification is soft. Bill Conerly, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025 Our recent work addresses this issue by creating a tool with an uncertainty quantification for microplastic identification. Ambuj Tewari, The Conversation, 6 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for quantification

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1840, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of quantification was circa 1840

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“Quantification.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/quantification. Accessed 10 Apr. 2025.

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