Meanings
present singular third person quantitates · participle present quantitating · participle past quantitated · past quantitated
- transitiveTo measure the quantity of, especially with high accuracy and taking uncertainty into account, as in quantitative analysis.
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Lastly, a "toeprint" of 30S subunits bound to T4 gene 32 mRNA has been observed with MMLV reverse transcriptase; while the experiment has not been quantitated, appearance of a signal at a subunit concentration of 0.02 μM is consistent with a binding constant on the order of 10⁷ M⁻¹ (Hartz et al., 1991).
2012, K.H. Nierhaus, F. Franceschi, A.R. Subramanian, The Translational Apparatus: Structure, Function, Regulation, Evolution, page 198Synonyms: quantify
Synonyms & antonyms
verbTo measure the quantity of, especially with high accuracy and taking uncertainty into account, as in quantitative analysis.
Origin
Back-formation from quantitative.
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