quantification Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a limitation imposed on the variables of a proposition (as by the quantifiers `some' or `all' or `no')
  2. noun the act of discovering or expressing the quantity of something

WordNet

Quan`ti*fi*ca"tion noun
Etymology
See Quantity.
Definitions
  1. Modification by a reference to quantity; the introduction of the element of quantity.
    The quantification of the predicate belongs in part to Sir William Hamilton; viz., in its extension to negative propositions. De Quincey.

Webster 1913