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Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a quantitative manner; with regard to quantity.

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  • adverb In a quantitative manner.
  • adverb With respect to quantity rather than quality.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb in a quantitative manner

Etymologies

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quantitative +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Both men were convinced that a key to understanding metabolism lies in quantitatively correlating data on heat development, mechanical work and cellular chemical reactions.

    Otto Meyerhof and the Physiology Institute: the Birth of Modern Biochemistry 2010

  • Einstein quantitatively predicted the curvature of starlight as it passes near the Sun.

    Behe: ID rescues Common Descent 2007

  • The one thing we can compare quantitatively is height, which hasn’t increased in two decades – the average height in the 2005-2006 season of NBA players was 6′-7. 18″, down from 6′-7. 36″ 20 years before.

    Matthew Yglesias » Old School 2007

  • It would be nothing but an entertaining philosophical idea except that when you formulate the idea quantitatively you can use the equations to predict nearly everything that happens on Earth and in the entire Cosmos to a fabulous degree of accuracy.

    Dan Agin: Book Review: The Very Strange World of Quantum Physics Dan Agin 2012

  • It would be nothing but an entertaining philosophical idea except that when you formulate the idea quantitatively you can use the equations to predict nearly everything that happens on Earth and in the entire Cosmos to a fabulous degree of accuracy.

    Dan Agin: Book Review: The Very Strange World of Quantum Physics Dan Agin 2012

  • It would be nothing but an entertaining philosophical idea except that when you formulate the idea quantitatively you can use the equations to predict nearly everything that happens on Earth and in the entire Cosmos to a fabulous degree of accuracy.

    Dan Agin: Book Review: The Very Strange World of Quantum Physics Dan Agin 2012

  • It would be nothing but an entertaining philosophical idea except that when you formulate the idea quantitatively you can use the equations to predict nearly everything that happens on Earth and in the entire Cosmos to a fabulous degree of accuracy.

    Dan Agin: Book Review: The Very Strange World of Quantum Physics Dan Agin 2012

  • If it were growing at 7%, it would essentially double in the next ten years; quantitatively, that is a huge double.

    Get Ready For $100 Oil and $1,600 Gold Get Ready For $100 Oil And $1,600 Gold Curtis Hesler 2006

  • Some of these qualities in man, as compared with the corresponding qualities in animals, differ only quantitatively, that is to say, a man has more of this quality, and an animal has more of some other; other qualities in man are represented by analogous qualities: for instance, just as in man we find knowledge, wisdom, and sagacity, so in certain animals there exists some other natural capacity akin to these.

    Aristotle on Animal Thought 2005

  • Some of these qualities in man, as compared with the corresponding qualities in animals, differ only quantitatively, that is to say, a man has more of this quality, and an animal has more of some other; other qualities in man are represented by analogous qualities: for instance, just as in man we find knowledge, wisdom, and sagacity, so in certain animals there exists some other natural capacity akin to these.

    Archive 2005-12-01 2005

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