different between quantify vs quantifier

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin quantificare (introduced by Sir William Hamilton in logic)

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?kw??n.t?.fa?/

Verb

quantify (third-person singular simple present quantifies, present participle quantifying, simple past and past participle quantified)

1. To assign a quantity to.
2. To determine the value of (a variable or expression).
3. (logic) To relate a statement (called a predicate) to a given set using a quantifier—either for all (denoted ?) or there exists (denoted ?).

Synonyms

• (measure the quantity of): quantitate

Translations

English

Etymology

quantify +? -er

Noun

quantifier (plural quantifiers)

1. (grammar) A word, such as all or many, that expresses a quantity
2. (logic) An operator, such as the universal quantifier (written as ?) or the existential quantifier (?), used in predicate calculus to indicate the degree that predicate is true for a specified set.
3. (computing) A symbol or symbols in a regular expression indicating the number of characters to be matched.

Hypernyms

• (grammar): determiner

Derived terms

• existential quantifier
• quantifier elimination
• universal quantifier

Related terms

• quantification
• quantify

Translations

French

Etymology

From English quantify.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.ti.fje/

Verb

quantifier

1. to quantify

Conjugation

Further reading

• “quantifier” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).