Quantifier Definition

kwŏntə-fīər
quantifiers
noun
quantifiers
An operator that limits the variables of a proposition, as some or all.
American Heritage
A word, term, prefix, symbol, etc. that quantifies.
Webster's New World
A word or other constituent that expresses a quantity or contrast in quantity, as some, all, or many.
American Heritage

(logic) The operator, represented by either of the symbols ∀ (universal quantifier) or ∃ (existential quantifier), used in predicate calculus to indicate the degree that predicate is true for a specified set.

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Synonyms:
  • logical quantifier
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Other Word Forms of Quantifier

Noun

Singular:
quantifier
Plural:
quantifiers

Origin of Quantifier

Quantifier Sentence Examples

  • The results of these experiments show consistent effects of all the contextual variables on quantifier judgements.

  • We will follow this practice of calling statements involving one of these quantifier phrases ' quantified statements '.

  • One was a definition by quantifier elimination; see Section 2.2 below.

  • Fourth, the quantifier rules provide no indication as to what terms or free variables must be used in their deployment.

  • Thus in our example, the first quantifier.* grabs most of the string, while the second quantifier.* gets the empty string.

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QQUQUA

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