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  quant

  noun

  quantitative analysis.
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  Quant

  noun

  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 American  

[kwahnt] / kwɑnt /

noun

1. quantitative analysis.

2. Business Slang. an expert in quantitative analysis.

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Quant ² American  

[kwahnt] / kwɑnt /

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.

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quant ¹ British  

/ kwɒnt /

noun

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

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verb

1. to propel (a boat) with a quant

Quant ² British  

/ kwɒnt /

noun

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

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quant ³ British  

/ 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

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Etymology

Origin of quant

An Americanism dating back to 1985–90; by clipping

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Example Sentences

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Like other quant firms, Two Sigma programmed its computers to sift through oceans of stock prices and other data to find patterns that helped predict where markets would move.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

Explaining the success of his fund’s strategies this year, Tom Feng, the chief investment officer of the quant strategies product, acknowledged some of that success was a direct result of some fund-manager intervention.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026

Fading investor momentum has left quant funds as the stock market’s main support, and that leaves a year-end rally highly dependent on oil prices, according to Barclays.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

“For individual investors, this is a real breakthrough,” said Irene Aldridge, an engineer and former quant trader who now researches the intersection of AI and financial markets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026

“At the ratings agencies the corporate credit people are the least bad,” says a quant who engineered mortgage bonds for Morgan Stanley.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

Quant hedge funds reap big gains from global bond selloff.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

Zach Rodriguez dove in, putting more than $100,000—half his family savings—into coins like Chainlink, Polkadot and Quant.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 1, 2025

Quant strategy is a neutral tool, but "in China, it's being used to provide liquidity to the bad guys," he said, referring to listed firms with poor governance.

From Reuters ● Sep. 21, 2023

Chimps Robbie and Sebcoe had been born in the park and were "like family" to Jon Quant, who grew up at the zoo after it was opened by his grandfather, Idris Hale.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2023

Quant au fond, the whole thing, of course, is a fever dream, and worthy of eternal laughter.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 24 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson

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