adjective
- Expressible as a quantity or relating to or susceptible of measurement.
- usage: "export wheat without quantitative limitations"; "quantitative analysis determines the amounts and proportions of the chemical constituents of a substance or mixture"
- Relating to the measurement of quantity.
- usage: "quantitative studies"
- Of verse. ( having a metric system based on relative duration of syllables)
- usage: "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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