Library / English Dictionary

QUANTITATIVELY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a quantitative manner

Example:

this can be expressed quantitatively

Classified under:

Adverbs

Pertainym:

quantitative (relating to the measurement of quantity)

Credits

 Context examples: 

The data associated with the performed study describes quantitatively and qualitatively actual observations and events occurring in the study after its approval, such as actual accrual numbers, dates of subject enrollment, etc.

(Performed Clinical Study, NCI Thesaurus)

By determining how these vulnerabilities interact with sociocultural and psychological influences on tobacco use, and by improving the ability to assess risks quantitatively, more effective prevention and cessation interventions can be developed and tailored to those most likely to benefit from them.

(Biobehavioral Determinants of Tobacco Use and Addiction, NCI Thesaurus)

An activity whose intention is to obtain a result by observing, monitoring, measuring or otherwise qualitatively or quantitatively gathering data or information about one or more aspects of the physiologic or psychologic state of an entity.

(Defined Observation, NCI Thesaurus)

An activity defined at a global library level whose intention is to obtain a result by observing, monitoring, measuring or otherwise qualitatively or quantitatively gathering data or information about one or more aspects of a study subject's or experimental unit's physiologic or psychologic state.

(Defined Observation, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

A type of atomic spectroscopy capable of qualitatively or quantitatively determining certain cations (particularly Na, K, Rb, Cs, Ca, Ba, Cu) by utilizing a low temperature flame capable of exciting a valence electron to an upper energy state which emits light at a wavelength unique to each cation as the electron returns to its ground state.

(Flame Photometry, NCI Thesaurus)