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quantitative character

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noun

Genetics.
  1. a character or trait that is transmitted by quantitative inheritance.


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The essential feature of the science of to-day is its quantitative character.

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They could not, as they conceived the physical world, accept its purely quantitative character.

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This involves an analysis of the whole significance of the qualitative and quantitative character of a population, with reference to any given values—standards of living, individual level of efficiency, liberty and determinism, etc.

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But the biologist also knows that sex is a quantitative character.

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The situation of an electron in any small duration may be defined as that event which has the quantitative character which is the charge of the electron.

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