quantitative
Americanadjective
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that is or may be estimated by quantity.
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of or relating to the describing or measuring of quantity.
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of or relating to a metrical system, as that of classical verse, based on the alternation of long and short, rather than accented and unaccented, syllables.
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of or relating to the length of a spoken vowel or consonant.
adjective
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involving or relating to considerations of amount or size Compare qualitative
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capable of being measured
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prosody denoting or relating to a metrical system, such as that in Latin and Greek verse, that is based on the relative length rather than stress of syllables
Other Word Forms
- nonquantitative adjective
- nonquantitativeness noun
- quantitatively adverb
- quantitativeness noun
- quantitively adverb
- quantitiveness noun
- unquantitative adjective
Etymology
Origin of quantitative
First recorded in 1575–85; from Medieval Latin quantitātīvus, equivalent to Latin quantitāt- (stem of quantitās “amount”) + -īvus adjective suffix; quantity, -ive
Example Sentences
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The firm employs quantitative strategies across the platform to build stock portfolios that use companies’ fundamental information in a systematic and risk-controlled way.
From Barron's
Traders, portfolio managers and analysts who embrace prompting in quantitative and qualitative work will uncover insights faster and with greater consistency.
From MarketWatch
To conduct their analysis, the team digitized the sign sequences into a database and evaluated them using tools from quantitative linguistics, including statistical modelling and machine learning classification algorithms.
From Science Daily
Those types of qualities won’t necessarily show up in quantitative results that an AI can easily crunch, but they are vital to giving a full and fair assessment of an employee.
At roughly $6.5 trillion—about 22% of gross domestic product—the balance sheet is historically large, even after several years of quantitative tightening.
From Barron's
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