quantitative

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   expressible as a quantity or relating to or susceptible of measurement

   We want to be able to export wheat without quantitative limitations.

2. 2
   adj

   of verse, having a metric system based on relative duration of syllables

   This is clearly quantitative verse.

3. 3
   adj

   relating to the measurement of quantity

   Quantitative studies are more important than armchair theorizing when it comes to solving world hunger.

4. 4
   adj

   Of a measurements and data types: based on some quantity or number rather than on some quality.

   Near-synonyms: nonqualitative, unqualitative.

From Late Latin quantitātīvus. By surface analysis, quantity + -ative.

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