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

From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Bode, Boyd H.

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

From Heroes of Science: Physicists by Garnett, William

The charge is the quantitative character of certain events due to the ingression of the electron into nature.

From The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 by Whitehead, Alfred North

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.

From The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 by Whitehead, Alfred North

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.

From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Park, Robert Ezra