qualitative

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Anemia is defined as a qualitative or quantitative deficiency of hemoglobin, a protein found inside red blood cells.

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  1. adjective Of, relating to, or concerning quality.

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  • It is all very qualitative, almost nebulous - I mean, you can create a research plan and you can follow the plan and everything, but it takes time and it's kind of expensive when time is very expensive. —  Think Vitamin
  • The difference between MHM and MZ has become quantitative and no more qualitative, and the regime has become morally bankrupt.
  • Since traditional electrical brain signal analysis is mostly qualitative, the development of new quantitative methods is crucial for restricting the subjectivity in the study of brain signals. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Search strategies included terms that were variations of interview, qualitative, themes, and experience. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Ironically I hardly studied for the qualitative at all. —  Don Loper
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  1. Middle English, producing a primary quality, from Medieval Latin quālitātīvus, from Late Latin, qualitative, from Latin quālitās, quālitāt-, quality; see quality.

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  1. = French qualitative = Spanish cualitativo = Portuguese Italian qualitativo, from Late Latin qualitativus, from Latin qualita(t-)s, quality: see quality.
 

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/ˈkwɑlɪtətɪv/
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