quantifiable

adjective

quan·​ti·​fi·​a·​ble ˌkwän-tə-ˈfī-ə-bəl How to pronounce quantifiable (audio)
: able to be expressed as an amount, quantity, or numerical value : capable of being quantified
quantifiable risks/benefits
There's a school of thought in Hollywood that good comedy is quantifiable, that you can measure a successful script or pilot on a punchlines-per-page or laughs-per-minute basis.Daniel Fienberg
These companies are ranked based on their score in Entrepreneur's 2016 Franchise 500, which is determined by objective, quantifiable criteria, including system size, growth and financial strength and stability.Tracy Stapp Herold
quantifiably adverb
Those who offer medical care to the children of poverty find themselves using their research projects to demonstrate that poverty is not only damaging, but quantifiably damaging to infants and children, searching for specific indices of growth and development, individual health and family function, which will allow them to measure the parameters of growing up at the bottom of our society. Perri Klass

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For enterprises implementing large-scale AI initiatives, Google's hardware advancements translate to quantifiable benefits across three dimensions: Economic Efficiency. Maribel Lopez, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025 Woodside said the data shared from the district allows the program to track the quantifiable benefits of arts education — but her organization also sees the unquantifiable ways that students grow and thrive. Jemma Stephenson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Apr. 2025 In some cases, the updates are less quantifiable and more about how the ship feels. Nathan Diller, USA Today, 31 Mar. 2025 The Trust Protocol provides quantifiable, verifiable goals and measurement, driving continuous improvement across key sustainability metrics. Sj Studio, Sourcing Journal, 31 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for quantifiable

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First Known Use

1862, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of quantifiable was in 1862

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“Quantifiable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/quantifiable. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.

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