Adjective: quantitative 'kwón-ti,tey-tiv or kwón-ti-tu-tiv
- 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";
- quantitive [rare]
- Relating to the measurement of quantity
"quantitative studies";
- quantitive [rare]
- (of verse) having a metric system based on relative duration of syllables
"The medieval transition from classical quantitative verse to accentual verse";
- quantitive [rare]
See also: decimal, denary, duodecimal, numeric, numerical, quantifiable, three-figure, valued, vicenary
Antonym: accentual, qualitative, syllabic
Encyclopedia: Quantitative