Definition of "quantifies" []

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of quantify. (verb)

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• "“None” might even have its singularity/plurality inherited from the noun it quantifies, which is my current take on the matter."
• "The evidence has been mounting for years, but a recent groundbreaking study by superstar Northwestern economist and fellow Nettelhorst mom Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach actually quantifies it."
• "Rodrik quantifies the value we would have to place on natives 'utility relative to immigrants' utility in order to justify immigration restrictions: The bottom line is that under plausible assumptions about the rate at which marginal utility is diminish ..."