qualitative change
collocation in Englishmeaningsofqualitativeandchange
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qualitative
adjective
uk/ˈkwɒl.ɪ.tə.tɪv/us/ˈkwɑː.lə.teɪ.t̬ɪv/
relating to how good or bad ...
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change
noun
uk/tʃeɪndʒ/us/tʃeɪndʒ/
the act of becoming different, or the result of something ...
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When children attend to the input and repeatedly attempt to parse it, their performance undergoes aqualitativechange.
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There will also be aqualitativechangein the characteristics of software systems, as well as in the methodologies adopted to develop them.
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It is essential to bear in mind that the limit induces aqualitativechangein the system behaviour, with an irreversible loss of information.
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The constitutional reform of 1994 marks a break with the past, and potentially represents aqualitativechangein terms of judiciary-executive relations.
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Furthermore, imperial insecurity imposed new claims on his political loyalties, eliciting aqualitativechangein his academic judgements.
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Also, we observe that there is noqualitativechangein the spectra when the sign of the chirp is changed while its magnitude is not.
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The clusters may actually be implyingqualitativechange.
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Negative fern responses to fertilization included aqualitativechangein species composition and a 13-fold reduction in density compared with controls.
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Qualitativechangeis usually a change in the images of knowledge, and it is essentially different from quantitative change in the body of knowledge.
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This kind ofqualitativechangeis very pervasive for many measures of adjustment and maladjustment in adolescence.
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It can be argued that the sum of these transformations was aqualitativechangein the relationship between science, policy and practice linked to desiccation.
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How will the perceived brightness in the computergenerated sound determine somequalitativechangein the instrumental parts?
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The resultantqualitativechangein their combined effect permits egalitarian countries to overtake highly inegalitarian countries, which remain underdeveloped.
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If necessary, these corrections could be added to our equation withoutqualitativechange.
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There, aqualitativechangein implosion dynamics occurred when the interwire gap decreased from 1.6 to 0.8 mm.
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Around 6 - 7 months of age, aqualitativechangeoccurs.
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A scalar field, one should note, does not suffer such aqualitativechangeon the transition from two t o three dimensions.
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Thequalitativechangemay suggest that changes in metaphorical thinking ability are related to changes in other cognitive capacities.
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On the other hand, not only are there more of them now, there has also been aqualitativechange.
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In other words, there is noqualitativechangeunder sufficiently small perturbations.
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