Quantifier vs. Modifier — What's the Difference?

(Logic) An operator that limits the variables of a proposition, as some or all.

A word, phrase, or clause that limits or qualifies the sense of another word or word group.

(Linguistics) A word or other constituent that expresses a quantity or contrast in quantity, as some, all, or many.

One who, or that which, modifies.

(grammar) A word, such as all or many, that expresses the quantity of a related noun.

(grammar) A word, phrase, or clause that limits or qualifies the sense of another word or phrase.

(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.

(programming) A keyword that qualifies the meaning of other code.

(computing) A symbol or symbols in a regular expression indicating the number of characters to be matched.

(computing) modifier key

(logic) a word (such as `some' or `all' or `no') that binds the variables in a logical proposition

One who, or that which, modifies.

(grammar) a word that expresses a quantity (as `fifteen' or `many')

A word or phrase that modifies another word, phrase, or sentence, usually by limiting the scope or restricting the meaning of the sentence element modified.

A content word that qualifies the meaning of a noun or verb

A moderator who makes less extreme or uncompromising

A person who changes something;

A gene that modifies the effect produced by another gene