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Qualitative

adjective

Involving distinctions based on qualities. "Qualitative data" , "Qualitative analysis determines the chemical constituents of a substance or mixture"

Relating to or involving comparisons based on qualities.

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"Qualitative" Quotes from Famous Books

... nor Rodriguez make a clear distinction between the quantitative function of no and the qualitative ...

— Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language • Diego Collado

... group of facts in a story only obtain substantial embodiment when the artist's power of compelling imaginative persuasion transforms them into a living truth. I assume that such a living truth is the artist's essential object. The first test of a short story, therefore, in any qualitative analysis is to report upon how vitally compelling the writer makes his selected facts or incidents. This test may be known as the test ...

— The Best Short Stories of 1915 - And the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various

... natural life; and at the beginning of the spiritual life we find that the spiritual life can only come from preexisting spiritual life. But there are not two Laws; there is one—Biogenesis. At one end the Law is dealing with matter, at the other with spirit. The qualitative terms natural and spiritual make no difference. Biogenesis is the Law for all life and for all kinds of life, and the particular substance with which it is associated is as indifferent to Biogenesis ...

— Natural Law in the Spiritual World • Henry Drummond

... English about a joke is really wonderful. It is easy to see that they have never been brought up on them. But perhaps there was some excuse for the professor that day, for he was the president pro tem. of our projected temperance society, and as such he head been making a quantitative and qualitative analysis of another ...

— Stories by American Authors, Volume 1 • Various

... very long ago, the scholar was often content with qualitative observations. Many phenomena were studied without much trouble being taken to obtain actual measurements. But it is now becoming more and more understood that to establish the relations which exist between physical magnitudes, and to represent the variations of these magnitudes by functions ...

— The New Physics and Its Evolution • Lucien Poincare

Words linked to "Qualitative" : quantitative, qualitative analysis, soft