If you try to quantify something, you try to calculate how much of it there is. It is difficult to quantify an exact figure as firms are reluctant to declare their losses.
quantify something to describe or express something as an amount or a number. The risks to health are impossible to quantify. Definition of quantify verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
quantify (third-person singular simple present quantifies, present participle quantifying, simple past and past participle quantified) (transitive) To assign a quantity to.
