quantitative
If your boss asks you to do a quantitative analysis of this month's ice cream sales, he's not asking you to talk about how pleasant the customer interactions were. He wants numbers: how many cones did you sell of each flavor?
If quantitative sounds like the word quantity to you, you're on the right track. Something that's quantitative is expressed in terms of quantity. When you're trying to figure out how well your new business is doing, there are all sorts of factors you need to think about, but only some of them can be measured in numbers. Those are quantitative. The other things, like say, how pleasant the room feels, would be qualitative, a word that's often paired with quantitative.
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expressible as a quantity or relating to or susceptible of measurement“export wheat without quantitative limitations”“quantitative analysis determines the amounts and proportions of the chemical constituents of a substance or mixture”synonyms:duodecimalbased on twelvequantifiablecapable of being quantifiedthree-figure(of numbers) written with three figuresvalued(usually used in combination) having value of a specified kindvicenaryof or relating to or based on 20antonyms:qualitativeinvolving distinctions based on qualitiessoftusing evidence not readily amenable to experimental verification or refutation
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relating to the measurement of quantity“quantitative studies”
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(of verse) having a metric system based on relative duration of syllables
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