Quantitative
['kwɒntɪ,tətɪv;-,teɪtɪv] or ['kwɑntətetɪv]
Definition
(adj.) expressible as a quantity or relating to or susceptible of measurement; 'export wheat without quantitative limitations'; 'quantitative analysis determines the amounts and proportions of the chemical constituents of a substance or mixture' .
(adj.) (of verse) having a metric system based on relative duration of syllables; 'in typical Greek and Latin verse of the classical period the rhymic system is based on some arrangement of long and short elements' .
(adj.) relating to the measurement of quantity; 'quantitative studies' .
Typist: Willard--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Relating to quantity.
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Examples
- Dalton thus introduced into the study of chemical combination a very definite idea of quantitative relationship. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- From this point of view, totality does not mean the hopeless task of a quantitative summation. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It goes without saying that we are far from such a social state; in a literal and quantitative sense, we may never arrive at it. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- This contains, acco rding to Dalton's biographer, the first quantitative statement of the heat evolved by compression and the heat ev olved by dilatation. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Looked at closely an election shows the quantitative division of the people on several alternatives. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Hence its mechanical and quantitative character. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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