单词 | quantitative |
释义 | quantitative (once / 3366 pages) 1adj 2adj If your boss asks you to do a quantitative analysis of this month's ice cream sales, he's not asking you to talk about how pleasant the customer interactions were. He wants numbers: how many cones did you sell of each flavor? If quantitative sounds like the word quantity to you, you're on the right track. Something that's quantitative is expressed in terms of quantity. When you're trying to figure out how well your new business is doing, there are all sorts of factors you need to think about, but only some of them can be measured in numbers. Those are quantitative. The other things, like say, how pleasant the room feels, would be qualitative, a word that's often paired with quantitative. WORD FAMILYquantitative: quantitatively USAGE EXAMPLESIn its long battle against deflation, it pioneered “quantitative easing”—buying vast amounts of government bonds—which depresses longer-term rates and thus banks’ lending margins. Economist(Dec 20, 2016) Many expect more bond purchases, but there are nerves the ECB may also signal a move away from quantitative easing in the future. Wall Street Journal(Dec 06, 2016) That raises two major challenges, quantitative and qualitative. Time(Dec 02, 2016) 1 1adj expressible as a quantity or relating to or susceptible of measurement export wheat without quantitative limitations quantitative analysis determines the amounts and proportions of the chemical constituents of a substance or mixture Syn|Ant decimal, denary numbered or proceeding by tens; based on ten duodecimalbased on twelve numeric, numericalmeasured or expressed in numbers quantifiablecapable of being quantified three-figure(of numbers) written with three figures valued(usually used in combination) having value of a specified kind vicenaryof or relating to or based on 20 qualitative involving distinctions based on qualities softusing evidence not readily amenable to experimental verification or refutation 2adj relating to the measurement of quantity 2quantitative studies adj (of verse) having a metric system based on relative duration of syllables Ant syllabic (of verse) having lines based on number of syllables rather than on rhythmical arrangement of stresses or quantities accentual(of verse) having a metric system based on stress rather than syllables or quantity |
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