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单词 quantitatively
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quantitativelyadv.

Brit. /ˈkwɒntᵻtətᵻvli/, /ˈkwɒntᵻteɪtᵻvli/, U.S. /ˈkwɑn(t)əˌteɪdᵻvli/
Forms: see quantitative adj. and -ly suffix2.
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Partly formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: Latin quantitativus , -ly suffix2; quantitative adj., -ly suffix2.
Etymology: Originally (in quot. 1551) < post-classical Latin quantitativus quantitative adj. + -ly suffix2. In later use also < quantitative adj. + -ly suffix2. Compare post-classical Latin quantitative , adverb (from 12th cent. in British sources; 13th cent. in a continental source), Middle French, French quantitativement (1585 in Middle French in an isolated attestation in sense 1, subsequently from 1846 in this sense; 1845 in sense 2).
1. In a quantitative manner; in respect of or with regard to quantity.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > quantity > [adverb]
quantitatively1551
quantitively1700
1551 T. Cranmer Answer S. Gardiner iii. 99 Altho we fede in dede of Christes body and drink in dede his bloud, yet not corporally, quantitatiuely, & palpably.
1593 R. Harvey Philadelphus 21 He and his surveyed it quantitatively.
1624 T. Gataker Discuss. Transubstant. 115 With quantitie, but not quantitatively.
1644 K. Digby Two Treat. ii. x. 423 One pure simple substance, peraduenture Metaphysically, or formally diuisible;..but not quantitatiuely.
1709 Royal French Gram. 141 Bien being taken quantitatively, requires the Definite Article.
1738 C. Place Doctr. Light, Sight, & Colours 70 When Motion that is impress'd upon one Body, communicates itself quantitatively in Parts and Proportions to several others.
1845 G. E. Day tr. J. F. Simon Animal Chem. I. 347 The magnesia and silica were not determined quantitatively.
1870 G. Rolleston Forms Animal Life Introd. 49 The brain holds a more favorable relation quantitatively to the body and to the spinal cord.
1903 Jrnl. Physiol. 29 266 Special arrangements were provided for quantitatively determining the changes of the blood gases in the perfusion.
1941 J. S. Huxley Uniqueness of Man xi. 233 A body of people pooling their different knowledges and skills to cope with quantitatively differentiated problems.
1982 M. J. Dring Biol. Marine Plants (1986) v. 100 It is difficult to know how best to express this observation quantitatively (e.g. number of bladders per plant, or per unit length of thallus, or per unit area, or weight).
2005 M. Bjornerud Reading Rocks iii. 82 While the dynamo theory is conceptually fairly simple, to model it quantitatively is, as mathematicians say, nontrivial.
2. Chemistry. As a whole quantity; with an efficiency or yield of 100 per cent.
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the world > matter > chemistry > chemical reactions or processes > [adverb] > by means of chemical reactions (general) > with a yield of 100 per cent
quantitatively1876
1876 Sanitary Rec. 11 Mar. 183/1 Acetic ether may be made to yield acetic acid quite quantitatively.
1882 Jrnl. Amer. Chem. Soc. 4 85 This compound..if heated..passes over into indigo sulpho acid almost quantitatively.
1907 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. 92 i. 784 The authors have been able..to remove the magnesium quantitatively and to obtain for the first time an ashless compound closely related to chlorophyll.
1911 F. Soddy Chem. Radio-elem. i. 26 The radium may be precipitated quantitatively by sulphuric acid.
1984 N. N. Greenwood & A. Earnshaw Chem. of Elements (1986) xi. 533 N2 is quantitatively evolved and alcohols usually result.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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