quantitative description
collocation in Englishmeaningsofquantitativeanddescription
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quantitative
adjective
uk/ˈkwɒn.tɪ.tə.tɪv/us/ˈkwɑːn.t̬ə.teɪ.t̬ɪv/
relating to numbers ...
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description
noun[C or U]
uk/dɪˈskrɪp.ʃən/us/dɪˈskrɪp.ʃən/
something that tells you what something or someone ...
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Heterogeneous nature of the ingestion of bloodinhabiting parasites by their vectors :quantitativedescriptionand interpretation.
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The concept of physical momentum is a highly useful, precise,quantitativedescriptionof facts about the motion of rigid bodies.
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Detailed studies have been performed on 83 ganglion cells to provide a relatively comprehensivequantitativedescriptionof the ganglion cell population.
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The generality of this meta-theory stems from the observation that any sufficiently wellunderstood physical domain will have aquantitativedescriptionspace associated with it.
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Thequantitativedescriptionof this distribution demonstrated that, despite an apparently diffuse organization, the location of preganglionic motoneurons in the cat is highly stereotypic.
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Such measures provide aquantitativedescriptionof long-term behavior of most orbits in a statistical sense.
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However, for a morequantitativedescriptionfree-energy calculations are needed.
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Research within this paradigm emphasizes thequantitativedescriptionof observable behavior.
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Here we provide the firstquantitativedescriptionand statistical tests of the pattern of change in brain size relative to body size in dolphins and whales over 47 million years.
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Instead, we argue for building a bridge between camps by using aquantitativedescriptionof the degree of client orientation thereby avoiding the pitfalls of a dualistic definition.
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This might explain the failure to obtain a fullyquantitativedescriptionof the structure factors and to account for specific effects associated with the nature of the added salts.
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Major emphasis was given to the 'basic' aspects of electrohydrodynamics; ' basic ' meaning thequantitativedescriptionof observed phenomena.
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I am sorry to interrupt, but in view of this wish to have aquantitativedescription, who is to verify whether the quantities are rightly stated on the label?
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One would be strongly acid and the other strongly alkaline, and without aquantitativedescriptionthe names of the constituents would give a perfectly meaningless formula.
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As aquantitativedescriptionof oligopoly, the four-firm concentration ratio is often utilized.
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The output data is typically aquantitativedescriptionof the stress over all those parts and joints, and the deformation caused by those stresses.
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In physics, this concept is applied to classical mechanics where rotational (or angular) kinematics is the science ofquantitativedescriptionof a purely rotational motion.
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Itsquantitativedescriptionrelies on internucleon potentials with phenomenological constants determined from fitting experimental data.
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Brightness should never be used forquantitativedescription, but only for nonquantitative references to physiological sensations and perceptions of light.
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Models, when perceived as quantitative descriptions of current understanding, can be an especially effective form of communication.
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