quant

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However, as I said in my previous reply, giving one video the bitrate to make it the same size as a quant-based encode for the same size doesn't mean that you can give the next video the same bitrate and expect the quality to be the same or similar to that of the first video.

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  1. noun Slang An expert in the use of mathematics and related subjects, particularly in investment management and stock trading.

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  • However, as I said in my previous reply, giving one video the bitrate to make it the same size as a quant-based encode for the same size doesn't mean that you can give the next video the same bitrate and expect the quality to be the same or similar to that of the first video. —  VideoHelp.com Forum
  • He thus became that rarity among Fed chiefs -- an admitted "quant," which stands for an adherent of quantitative easing -- and his conversion represents a quantum leap from the old-fogey notion favored by Fed chairmen of yore of rousing or restraining the economy by fiddling with fed-fund rates and kindred oblique monetary moves.
  • You see where I'm at with all this: a quant, a humanist, a Cartesian, a practicioner who doesn't like to play without an edge, and an axe-wielding critic of that which strikes me as without rigor. —  Editorials from Hell's leading daily newspaper
  • Nuuuuuu,,, quant was easy but totally whooped me upside down, ,nuuuuu —  WordPress.com News
  • Reynolds added that it's likely Putnam will eventually offer a line of quant-only funds. —  MarketWatch.com - Top Stories
 

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  1. Probably short for quantitative.

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  1. Also quant; from Middle English quante, whante, a pole, stick, rod; cf. kent.
 

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