2 to measure the size or amount of something and express it as a number:
difficult/hard/impossible to quantify The economic costs of IT complexity are hard to quantify.
He said it was too early to quantify the total financial impact of the hurricanes.
There is no theoretical account of the mental representations that are changing within their postulated dynamic processes, and how these changes are to be quantified.
We then quantify the stretching by considering the total stretch suffered during this finite period of time.
Although many of the questions asked were open-ended and were analysed using thematic coding techniques, in other cases it was possible to quantify the results.
Finally, and just as before, the size of the ideal risk (7.3) quantifies the precision of nonlinear approximation.
Specifically, the extent to which different maps contain the same information is quantified.
To quantify the significance of this additional synchrony we used sparse noise stimuli.
Some pupils were able to quantify their work systematically; others were shown how to use some of the graphical note editing screens.
With our present knowledge it is not possible to quantify the contribution of each of these processes in reducing the ablation depth exactly.
