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quantitative
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English
Etymology
From Late Latin quantitātīvus. By surface analysis, quantity + -ative.
Pronunciation
Adjective
quantitative (comparative more quantitative, superlative most quantitative)
- Of a measurements and data types: based on some quantity or number rather than on some quality.
- Of logical analysis: based on quantification as well as qualification, rather than solely the latter: thus, not ignorant of magnitudes (large or small).
- (chemistry) Of a form of analysis, that determines the amount of some element or compound in a sample.
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Translations
of a measurement based on some quantity or number rather than on some quality
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of a form of analysis that determines the amount of some element or compound in a sample
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French
Pronunciation
Adjective
quantitative
German
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Adjective
quantitative
- inflection of quantitativ:
Italian
Pronunciation
Adjective
quantitative
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kʷan.tɪ.taːˈtiː.wɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [kʷan̪.t̪i.t̪aˈt̪iː.ve]
Adjective
quantitātīve
References
- "quantitative", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
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