quantifiable

adjective

quan·ti·fi·a·ble ˌkwän-tə-ˈfī-ə-bəl

: 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

ˌkwän-tə-ˈfī-ə-blē

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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Setting Clear, Measurable Goals: Define quantifiable sustainability objectives (e.g., emission reduction targets) and align with frameworks like the UN sustainable development goals (SDGs). —

Evgeny Popov, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024 Completing bounties, helping citizens through side-quests, besting other candidates—all of these actions help the game’s hero in a quantifiable way, where his number inches further up a magical scoreboard. —

Megan Farokhmanesh, WIRED, 8 Oct. 2024 The states had argued that the new rule will impose weighty costs and risk destabilizing the nation's power grids without any quantifiable public health benefit for reducing emissions of hazardous air pollutants. —

Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 4 Oct. 2024 However, 30 to 40 percent should still rely on traditional approaches that involve human creativity, brand strategy, and quantifiable data from non-AI sources. —

Vicki M. Young, Sourcing Journal, 17 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for quantifiable