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QUANTIFIER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does quantifier mean?
• QUANTIFIER (noun)
The noun QUANTIFIER has 2 senses:
1. (logic) a word (such as 'some' or 'all' or 'no') that binds the variables in a logical proposition
2. (grammar) a word that expresses a quantity (as 'fifteen' or 'many')
Familiarity information: QUANTIFIER used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(logic) a word (such as 'some' or 'all' or 'no') that binds the variables in a logical proposition
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
logical quantifier; quantifier
Hypernyms ("quantifier" is a kind of...):
word (a unit of language that native speakers can identify)
Domain category:
logic (the branch of philosophy that analyzes inference)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "quantifier"):
existential operator; existential quantifier (a logical quantifier of a proposition that asserts the existence of at least one thing for which the proposition is true)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(grammar) a word that expresses a quantity (as 'fifteen' or 'many')
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("quantifier" is a kind of...):
word (a unit of language that native speakers can identify)
Domain category:
grammar (the branch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphology (and sometimes also deals with semantics))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "quantifier"):
universal quantifier (a logical quantifier of a proposition that asserts that the proposition is true for all members of a class of things)
Context examples
Term given to the dimensions of the quantifier of x-ray attenuation, CT number.
(Hounsfield Unit, NCI Thesaurus)
A normalized quantifier of the attenuation coefficient which is imaged in a CT scanner.
(CT Number, NCI Thesaurus)
A plot whose ordinate is a quantifier, such as some measure of activity concentration, at points around an annulus in a slice, and whose abscissa is in degrees.
(Circumferential Profile Plot, NCI Thesaurus)
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