noun
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The act of quantifying.
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The expression of an economic activity in monetary units.
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A limitation that is imposed on the variables of a proposition.
Examples of quantification in a Sentence
At present I am investigating techniques of quantification of biofilms on marine antifouling coatings and relating these to antifouling release agents.
Care should also be taken with the quantification of tsunami magnitude in whatever catalog or theoretical model is used as a basis for analysis.
We are currently developing an ion mobility spectrometer for the detection and quantification of trace compounds in exhaled breath in real time.
Measurement science implies more than just the observation of phenomena, it suggests identification, quantification, possibly spatial or volume localisation.
Additionally, the digital echo sounder will be used with a side-looking sonar transducer that will enable quantification of dune planform morphology.
The Ricardo steady-state flow rig â providing cost-effective quantification of bulk swirl or tumble â provides the starting point in most programs.
Hamilton's significance for the history of logic lies in the stimulus that he gave to the development of symbolic logic in England by his new analytic based upon his discovery or adoption of the principle of the quantification of the predicate.
Lotze's mistake is the same as that of Hamilton about the quantification of the predicate, and that of those symbolists who held that reasoning ought always to exhaust all alternatives by equations.
On the other hand, we may go too far in the opposite direction, as Hamilton did in proposing the universal quantification of the predicate.
By means of the doctrine of the quantification of the predicate, in which with his Leibnitzian conception of identity he anticipated Beneke and Hamilton alike, universal and particular judgments are made to pull together.