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quantify
/ˈkwɒntɪfaɪ/ verb [T]Definition
› to measure the size or amount of something and express it as a number: difficult/hard/impossible to quantify The economic costs of IT complexity are hard to quantify. He said it was too early to quantify the total financial impact of the hurricanes.
quantification noun [U] › The question was not simply one of quantification of damages, it was one of liability.(Definition of quantify verb from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
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