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Qualitative   Listen
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Qualitative  adj.  Relating to quality; having the character of quality.
Qualitative analysis (Chem.), analysis which merely determines the constituents of a substance without any regard to the quantity of each ingredient; contrasted with quantitative analysis.






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"Qualitative" Quotes from Famous Books



... the Apparatus required in Chemical Work and General Chemical Manipulation, introducing the subject of Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis. Fuels. — Analysis of Coal, Coke and other Fuels — Sampling and Testing for Moisture, Ash, Calorific Value, etc. — Comparative Heating Value of different Fuels and Relative ...
— The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics • Franklin Beech

... poetical, but fanciful and untrue. It confounds the progress of the race with the progress of the individual, the progress of civilization with the advance of the inner life. Why? Because its criterion is quantitative, that is to say, purely exterior (having regard to the wealth of life), and not qualitative (the goodness of life). Always the same tendency to take the appearance for the thing, the form for the substance, the law for the essence, always the same absence of moral personality, the same obtuseness of conscience, which has never recognized sin present in the will, which places evil outside ...
— Amiel's Journal • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... analysis of sources constitutes the third process of scholarly communication that MICHELSON discussed in terms of texts and textual resources. The methods used to analyze sources fall somewhere on a continuum from quantitative analysis to qualitative analysis. Typically, evidence is culled and evaluated using methods drawn from both ends of this continuum. At one end, quantitative analysis involves the use of mathematical processes such as a count of frequencies and distributions of occurrences or, on a higher level, ...
— LOC WORKSHOP ON ELECTRONIC TEXTS • James Daly

... without qualitative either formal or affectionate), "I did not promise to write to you, so I am doing it. London is very full of gay things which are not so gay as they look. I would rather see you and Whitefoot (give him a kiss from me!) than the procession of the Regent ...
— Patsy • S. R. Crockett



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