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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He said in a recent Hoover Institution interview that he supported the initial round of what came to be known as quantitative easing.
More recently, the Fed has been buying T-bills since ending its quantitative tightening, adding $77 billion in bills from Dec. 10 to Jan. 28.
From Barron's
Warsh said the asset-buying policy, which came to be known as quantitative easing, was an appropriate emergency measure but needed to be reversed once the crisis passed.
From Barron's
The Bank of Japan has been raising rates, there’s quantitative tightening in Europe and the Federal Reserve held rates steady this week.
From MarketWatch
A poll of top investors who collectively run over $1 trillion in assets finds they are putting most of their hedge-fund money into so-called quantitative funds that trade based on complex algorithms and machine learning.
From MarketWatch
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