quantifier

kvanttori puhekieltä A word, such as all or many, that expresses a quantity
puhekieltä 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.
puhekieltä A symbol or symbols in a regular expression indicating the number of characters to be matched.
to quantify