EGAVE

quantifier

About 0.58 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A word, such as all or many, that expresses the quantity of a related noun.
  2. noun An operator, such as the universal quantifier (written as ∀) or the existential quantifier (∃), used in predicate calculus to indicate the degree that predicate is true for a specified set.
  3. noun A symbol or symbols in a regular expression indicating the number of characters to be matched.

Similar words

scoping quant universal quantifier quantity all-operator quotiety quantification numerary adjunct multiplicative number quantivalence

Often followed by

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Word family

quantifiers

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