QUANTIFIER
quantifier
(noun) (grammar) a word that expresses a quantity (as ‘fifteen’ or ‘many’)
quantifier, logical quantifier
(noun) (logic) a word (such as ‘some’ or ‘all’ or ‘no’) that binds the variables in a logical proposition
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
quantifier (plural quantifiers)
(grammar) A word, such as all or many, that expresses a quantity
(logic) 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.
(computing) A symbol or symbols in a regular expression indicating the number of characters to be matched.
Hypernyms
• (grammar): determiner
Source: Wiktionary
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