quantification

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
quantification
    n 1: a limitation imposed on the variables of a proposition (as
         by the quantifiers `some' or `all' or `no')
    2: the act of discovering or expressing the quantity of
       something
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Quantification \Quan`ti*fi*ca"tion\, n. [See {Quantity}.]
   Modification by a reference to quantity; the introduction of
   the element of quantity.
   [1913 Webster]

         The quantification of the predicate belongs in part to
         Sir William Hamilton; viz., in its extension to
         negative propositions.                   --De Quincey.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
40 Moby Thesaurus words for "quantification":
      accounting, appraisal, appraisement, approximation, assessment,
      assize, assizement, calculation, census, computation, correction,
      counting, dactylonomy, determination, enumeration, estimate,
      estimation, evaluation, foliation, gauging, instrumentation,
      inventorying, measure, measurement, measuring, mensuration,
      metric system, numbering, numeration, pagination, quantization,
      rating, survey, surveying, tallying, telemetering, telemetry,
      telling, triangulation, valuation

    

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