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QUANTIFIER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(grammar) a word that expresses a quantity (as 'fifteen' or 'many')
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("quantifier" is a kind of...):
word (a unit of language that native speakers can identify)
Domain category:
grammar (the branch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphology (and sometimes also deals with semantics))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "quantifier"):
universal quantifier (a logical quantifier of a proposition that asserts that the proposition is true for all members of a class of things)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(logic) a word (such as 'some' or 'all' or 'no') that binds the variables in a logical proposition
Synonyms:
logical quantifier; quantifier
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("quantifier" is a kind of...):
word (a unit of language that native speakers can identify)
Domain category:
logic (the branch of philosophy that analyzes inference)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "quantifier"):
existential operator; existential quantifier (a logical quantifier of a proposition that asserts the existence of at least one thing for which the proposition is true)
