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.
From The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 by Whitehead, Alfred North
Its force-relations with ponderable matter are not only universally and incessantly maintained, but they have that precisely quantitative character which implies an essential identity between the innermost natures of the two substances.
From The Unseen World and Other Essays by Fiske, John
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
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.
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