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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 propositionplay

2. (grammar) a word that expresses a quantity (as 'fifteen' or 'many')play

  Familiarity information: QUANTIFIER used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


QUANTIFIER (noun)


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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