quantification
noun
quan·ti·fi·ca·tion
ˌkwän-tə-fə-ˈkā-shən 
: the operation of quantifying
quantificationally
adverb
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In a world in which objective quantifications of value-added are usually eclipsed by the politics of reputation, managing up and faking good, managers prefer to rely on visual cues, such as employees being at their desks, to gauge whether work is being done.
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Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
The intern, who was not identified, was assigned a project to review quantification data and alerted the lab’s management that specific data appeared to be missing, the affidavit said.
—Doha Madani, NBC News, 23 Jan. 2025
This degree of unpredictability—Shannon called it entropy—could be measured statistically, and its quantification is foundational to machine learning (and indeed all computing).
—Harper's Magazine, 2 Sep. 2024
The emergence of a capitalist market economy put ever greater demand on quantification (the act of counting or measuring the quantity of something), calculation and bookkeeping skills.
—James Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Dec. 2024
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Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
The intern, who was not identified, was assigned a project to review quantification data and alerted the lab’s management that specific data appeared to be missing, the affidavit said.
—Doha Madani, NBC News, 23 Jan. 2025
This degree of unpredictability—Shannon called it entropy—could be measured statistically, and its quantification is foundational to machine learning (and indeed all computing).
—Harper's Magazine, 2 Sep. 2024
The emergence of a capitalist market economy put ever greater demand on quantification (the act of counting or measuring the quantity of something), calculation and bookkeeping skills.
—James Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Dec. 2024
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“Quantification.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/quantification. Accessed 9 Mar. 2025.
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