quantitative (adj.)

  1. 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'

  2. relating to the measurement of quantity; quantitative studies'

  3. (of verse) having a metric system based on relative duration of syllables; in typical Greek and Latin verse of the classical period the rhymic system is based on some arrangement of long and short elements'

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