quantifier

Other forms of quantifier

plural

quantifiers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about quantifier

What does quantifier mean?

quantifier means "(logic) a word (such as `some' or `all' or `no') that binds the variables in a logical proposition". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in quantifier?

quantifier has 4 syllables: quan-ti-fi-er. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for quantifier?

Close synonyms include logical quantifier. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is quantifier a common word?

quantifier is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.