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Quantitative   /kwˈɑntɪtˌeɪtɪv/  /kwˈɑnɪtˌeɪtɪv/   Listen
Quantitative

adjective
1.
Expressible as a quantity or relating to or susceptible of measurement.  "Quantitative analysis determines the amounts and proportions of the chemical constituents of a substance or mixture"
2.
Relating to the measurement of quantity.
3.
(of verse) having a metric system based on relative duration of syllables.



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"Quantitative" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the high school and college were unsuitable for pupils of this age. We want children to be attracted to science, not repelled by it. The assumption that scientific method can be taught to children by making them perform uninteresting, quantitative experiments in an effort to get a result that will tally with that given in the textbook is so palpably unfounded that it is scarcely necessary to prove its failure by pointing to the very unscientific product of most of ...
— Common Science • Carleton W. Washburne
... take them in order, and it will speedily become apparent that we are dealing here with a subtle quantitative problem in psychology, a constant weighing of whether this force or that force is the stronger. We are dealing with influences so subtle that the accidents of some striking dramatic occurrence, for example, may turn them this way or that. We ...
— What is Coming? • H. G. Wells
... is under the supervision of Mr. G. H. E. Du Bell, Ph.D., a thoroughly competent quantitative and qualitative analytical chemist, a graduate of the French and German Universities and also a licentiate in this country, who, with his able corps of assistants, makes all examinations and reports in full upon them to the Medical Chief of Staff, who in turn submits them with ...
— Manhood Perfectly Restored • Unknown
... diminution of heat, not a distinct form of force. The absolute zero may be reached by the abstraction of all heat, and then the cold cannot increase. So, life and death are not true contraries, for the latter is not anything real but a mere privative, a quantitative diminution of the former, growing less to an absolute zero where it ...
— The Religious Sentiment - Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and - Philosophy of Religion • Daniel G. Brinton


Words linked to "Quantitative" :   three-figure, decimal, duodecimal, quantity, qualitative, valued, numerical, numeric, denary, quantifiable, syllabic, accentual, vicenary


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