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quantitative
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective quantitative has 3 senses
- quantitative(a = adj.all) Array - 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" Antonym: qualitative
- quantitative(a = adj.pert) Array - relating to the measurement of quantity; "quantitative studies"
- quantitative(a = adj.all) Array - (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" Antonyms: accentual, syllabic
CIDE DICTIONARY
quantitative, a. [Cf. F. quantitatif.].
Relating to quantity. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
quantitative, adj.
1 a concerned with quantity. b measured or measurable by quantity.
2 of or based on the quantity of syllables.
1 a concerned with quantity. b measured or measurable by quantity.
2 of or based on the quantity of syllables.
Idiom
quantitative analysis Chem. measurement of the amounts of the constituents of a substance (opp. QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS).
Derivative
quantitatively adv.
Etymology
med.L quantitativus (as QUANTITY)
THESAURUS
quantitative
a, an, any, approximative, certain, chorographic, estimative, hypsographic, measured, measuring, mensural, mensurational, mensurative, metric, numerative, oceanographic, one, quantified, quantitive, quantized, some, topographic, valuational, valuativeROGET THESAURUS
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Quantity
N quantity, magnitude, size, amplitude, magnitude, mass, amount, sum, quantum, measure, substance, strength, force, mathematics, mathesis, category, general conception, universal predicament, armful, handful, mouthful, spoonful, capful, stock, batch, lot, dose, yaffle, quantitative, some, any, aught, more or less, a few, to the tune of, all of, a full, the sum of, fully, exactly, precisely.
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