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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

... side was completed in 1910 and cost with equipment about $300,000. It is four stories high, 230 feet long by 130 feet wide, and is built about two interior courts. The building contains two amphitheaters, laboratories for organic and qualitative chemistry, metallurgy, physical chemistry, and gas analysis, as well as the ...

— The University of Michigan • Wilfred Shaw

... adduced as the necessary results but as the ordinary tendencies of these respective theories. The mind frequently stops short of the conclusions logically deducible from its own principles. To measure precisely the effect of each view would be impossible. In mental science analysis must be qualitative, ...

— History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion • Adam Storey Farrar

... "The qualitative analysis give a quite normal condition, and shows, I should infer, in itself a vigorous state of health. In other physical matters I was quite satisfied that there is no need for anxiety, but as there must be a cause somewhere, I have come to the conclusion that it ...

— Dracula • Bram Stoker

... organizers and directors, the history of the world since the end of medievalism had curiously provided for this after a fashion that seemed almost miraculous. The type required was different from anything that had been developed before. Whenever the qualitative standard had been operative, it was necessary that the leaders in any form of creative action should be men of highly developed intellect, fine sensibility, wide and penetrating vision, nobility of instinct, passion for righteousness, and a consciousness of the ...

— Towards the Great Peace • Ralph Adams Cram

... which is assimilated by the chromosomes, and which is turned into their substance by the process of organic chemistry, loses its specific plastic vital energy completely. It is in the same way that food eaten by the adult has absolutely no effect on his qualitative organic structure. We may eat ever so many beef-steaks without acquiring any of the characteristics of an ox. And the germ-cell may devour any amount of egg-protoplasma without losing its original paternal energy. As a rule a child ...

— Sex - Avoided subjects Discussed in Plain English • Henry Stanton

... in negative virtues. I think the ideas of them arise out of the system of metaphysical errors I have roughly analyzed in my first Book, out of the inherent tendency of the mind to make the relative absolute and to convert quantitative into qualitative differences. Our minds fall very readily under the spell of such unmitigated words as Purity and Chastity. Only death beyond decay, absolute non-existence, can be Pure and Chaste. Life is impurity, fact is impure. Everything has traces of alien matter; our very health ...

— First and Last Things • H. G. Wells

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

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