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Adjective: quantitative  'kwón-ti`tey-tiv or kwón-ti-tu-tiv
  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

See also: decimal, denary, duodecimal, numeric, numerical, quantifiable, quantitatively, quantity, three-figure, valued, vicenary

Antonym: accentual, qualitative, syllabic

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