quant

¹

[kwahnt]

noun

1. Business Slang.,  an expert in quantitative analysis.

Quant

²

[kwahnt]

noun

1. Dame Mary Barbara Mary Quant, 1930–2023, English fashion designer and entrepreneur: often credited as the principal designer of the miniskirt in the 1960s.

quant

¹

/ kwɒnt /

noun

1. a long pole for propelling a boat, esp a punt, by pushing on the bottom of a river or lake

verb

1. to propel (a boat) with a quant

Quant

²

/ kwɒnt /

noun

1. Mary. born 1934, British fashion designer, whose Chelsea Look of miniskirts and geometrically patterned fabrics dominated London fashion in the 1960s

quant

³

/ kwɒnt /

noun

1. informal,  a highly paid computer specialist with a degree in a quantitative science, employed by a financial house to predict the future price movements of securities, commodities, currencies, etc

Word History and Origins

Origin of quant¹

An Americanism dating back to 1985–90; by clipping

Word History and Origins

Origin of quant¹

C15: probably from Latin contus a pole, from Greek kontos

Origin of quant²

C20: from _quantitative

Example Sentences

In fact, analysts normally would have cut between 3% and 4% since the end of June, but this was the first year since 2023 that that didn’t happen, notes Bank of America’s Equity and Quant Strategist Savita Subramanian on Monday.

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Shirley wears Leeann Huang lenticular dress and shoes, Mary Quant tights and l.a.

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His father worked in a car battery factory, while his mother, a trained teacher in Jamaica, became a seamstress for Mary Quant.

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Founded in 2001 by Mr. Siegel, Mr. Overdeck and Mark Pickard, who has since retired, Two Sigma is one of a handful of “quant” firms, which apply a quantitative approach — the use of mathematical models rather than human decision-making to find patterns in historical data and other financial information — to trade stocks, bonds and more esoteric assets.

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It put its name on an arena and celebrities in its ads; Bankman-Fried cultivated an image as a wild-haired savant, a former Wall Street quant who became a crypto luminary in the name of giving away his wealth to erase poverty and avert planetary destruction.

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