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QUANTIFICATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of discovering or expressing the quantity of something
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("quantification" is a kind of...):
measure; measurement; measuring; mensuration (the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "quantification"):
gradation; graduation (the act of arranging in grades)
Derivation:
quantify (express as a number or measure or quantity)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A limitation imposed on the variables of a proposition (as by the quantifiers 'some' or 'all' or 'no')
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("quantification" is a kind of...):
limitation; restriction (a principle that limits the extent of something)
Holonyms ("quantification" is a part of...):
functional calculus; predicate calculus (a system of symbolic logic that represents individuals and predicates and quantification over individuals (as well as the relations between propositions))
Derivation:
quantify (use as a quantifier)
Context examples:
The platinum-DNA adduct formation can be measured through quantification of C14-labeled drug-DNA adducts by using AMS.
(Carbon C 14 Oxaliplatin, NCI Thesaurus)
The quantification of a simple organic or inorganic chemical within a biological specimen.
(Chemistry Measurement, NCI Thesaurus)
The Cu 64 moiety may be detected using positron emission tomography (PET), thereby allowing the imaging and quantification of HER3-expressing tumor cells.
(Copper Cu 64-DOTA-Anti-HER3 Monoclonal Antibody U3-1287, NCI Thesaurus)
A turned ‹a› (‹ɐ›) is used by the International Phonetic Alphabet for the near-open central vowel, while a turned capital ‹A› (‹∀›) is used in predicate logic to indicate universal quantification.
(A, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
It is important for the quantification of image features that many numerical values associated with the scanner configuration and protocol used be given.
(DICOM Header Tag, NCI Thesaurus)
