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

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