quantifying

verb

present participle of quantify
as in measuring
formal to find the quantity or amount of (something) It is difficult to quantify intelligence. Doctors have quantified the risks of smoking cigarettes. It is impossible to quantify the number of websites on the Internet.

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Recent Examples of quantifying The challenge lies in quantifying these long-term preventive benefits, which differ greatly from traditional automation metrics. — Terdawn Deboe, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026 For a wellness culture already obsessed with quantifying rest, circadian scores are the number the sleep score never quite delivered. — Hanna Wickes, Sacbee.com, 21 July 2026 In 2018, Picard and his colleagues released the mitochondrial health index — a molecular measure of mitochondria’s capacity to transform energy, calculated by extracting the organelles from a tissue sample and quantifying their contents. — Rachel Nuwer, Quanta Magazine, 17 July 2026 Somebody has to be paid to do all that quantifying and validating. — Susan Shelley, Oc Register, 18 Apr. 2026 Cyber-physical systems going to become very pervasive The concept of cy-trust focuses on quantifying trust in a measurable way. — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 6 Apr. 2026 The agency claims that quantifying health benefits is too uncertain. — Andrew Behar, Fortune, 1 Apr. 2026 Today, new global health research quantifying the risks of pollution exposure helps explain why disasters like Donora were so deadly, and why similar health threats persist. — Ella Whitman, The Conversation, 19 Mar. 2026 Each title race is unique, every contending team shaped by a different mental make-up and set of circumstances, and quantifying how each psychological strain manifests itself on the pitch is next to impossible. — Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for quantifying
  1. measuring
  2. weighing
  3. estimating
  4. assessing
Verb
  • If the answer swings on how the question was phrased, the model is not measuring anything about the match.
    — Boaz Sobrado, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026
  • With its spectacular imagery of bioluminescent creatures, not to mention a giant squid measuring somewhere between 2-4 storeys tall, this is a film that demands to be seen on the big screen.
    — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of measuring
Verb
  • Young women, meanwhile, were weighing their choices accordingly.
    — Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Even as Miller digs in, Republicans are weighing who could replace the 37-year-old lawmaker on the ballot.
    — Shelby Talcott, semafor.com, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of weighing
Verb
  • At the same time, Alphabet raised its full-year capital expenditure forecast, estimating that full-year capex will reach between $195 billion and $205 billion.
    — , CNBC, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Spain's interior ministry released its own figures shortly after Vivas spoke Friday, estimating that some 50,000 people had crossed from Morocco since Thursday.
    — Robert McGreevy, FOXNews.com, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of estimating
Verb
  • Rather than assessing individual process decisions separately, the new system is intended to examine multiple design options and weigh competing factors together.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Investors and startup CEOs are keenly studying the variations in how much an African tech startup can hope to raise as a signal for assessing the ecosystem’s health.
    — Alexander Onukwue, semafor.com, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of assessing

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