quantification

Other forms: quantifications

Definitions of quantification

1. noun

   the act of discovering or expressing the quantity of something
   types:

   gradation, graduation

   the act of arranging in grades

   blending, shading

   a gradation involving small or imperceptible differences between grades

   type of:

   measure, measurement, measuring, mensuration

   the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule
2. noun

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

   limitation, restriction, stricture

   a principle that limits the extent of something