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- verb Present participle of
quantify .
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Examples
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The ARIS research also led in quantifying and planting a label on the "Nones" — people who said "None" when asked the survey's basic question: "What is your religious identity?"
Most religious groups in USA have lost ground, survey finds 2009
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Without any real tangible benefits -- like dinner -- then it becomes an exercise in quantifying an essentially introspective activity that has some real compulsive elements thrown in there.
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Without any real tangible benefits -- like dinner -- then it becomes an exercise in quantifying an essentially introspective activity that has some real compulsive elements thrown in there.
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Even Stern does some pretty obnoxious things in quantifying the impact of human deaths in terms of lost economic utility.
Uncertainties and challenges in climate science | Serendipity 2010
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This study takes the first major stride in quantifying such an effect.
USATODAY.com - Study: Storm survivors find will to live 2006
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Obviously I was being facetious in quantifying the scope.
low confidence 2005
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The ARIS research also led in quantifying and planting a label on the “Nones” — people who said “None” when asked the survey’s basic question: “What is your religious identity?”
Survey shows major faith shifts; Growing group of Americans claim no religion at all 2009
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On the issue of trade imbalances, Mr. Geithner likewise saw opposition to the idea of quantifying goals for how much reduction should take place.
Geithner Faces Headwinds in Asia Ahead of G-20 Ian Talley 2010
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This angers me almost as much as the idea of quantifying happiness is as bogus as ideas come.
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On Wittgenstein's intermediate finitism, an expression quantifying over an infinite domain is never a meaningful proposition, not even when we have proved, for instance, that a particular number n has a particular property.
Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics Rodych, Victor 2007
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