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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
qualitative
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
analysis
▪ This computer assisted process of summarising and coding made a large amount of semi-structured material amenable to qualitative analysis.
▪ In spite of the breadth of the sample, in-depth qualitative analysis of user activity was limited.
change
▪ Nevertheless, even the opposition recognises the qualitative change in local management and planning, and its potential.
▪ Each step represents a qualitative change in reasoning abilities.
▪ Harris said little, if any, qualitative changes in foster care, residential care, and adoption had been made.
▪ New schemata do not replace prior ones; as in accommodation, they incorporate them, resulting in a qualitative change.
▪ There is then a qualitative change from earlier socio-cultural relations, even within the earlier market phases.
▪ These significant leaps in numbers have a certain science fiction quality and come to signify qualitative change.
▪ In the first place, the creation of a regular standing army marked a qualitative change in the authority of the monarchy.
▪ Thus it is that evolving behaviors reflect qualitative changes in many schemata.
data
▪ In addition, on the basis of qualitative data, it is hoped to identify different types of support networks.
▪ It uses all sorts of quantitative and qualitative data, and allows all types of subjective and objective assessments.
difference
▪ But how could we ensure that complexity and mystery were the only qualitative differences between the various skylines?
▪ A tidy distinction between invention and innovation does not exist, even though there is a qualitative difference in the activities.
▪ There are, however, qualitative differences.
▪ The difficulties are not simply concerned with the quantity of data, but with qualitative differences as well.
▪ It is tempting to refer this accuracy of localisation to qualitative differences within the scale of pressure sensations.
method
▪ The use of in-depth qualitative methods is relatively untried in driver research, but here is shown to be most valuable.
▪ The project will combine quantitive and qualitative methods of research.
▪ The qualitative methods provide them with feminist validity, while the quantitative methods ensure the reliability which psychology values.
▪ Most qualitative methods, however, since they pre-date the discipline, are largely ignored in qualitative reports.
▪ Psychology's association of qualitative methods with femininity might, again, seem to have some feminist potential.
research
▪ But quantitative and qualitative research methods will be used to gather data.
▪ There is a strong interest in qualitative research, although a variety of other methodological approaches are utilised.
▪ Progress depends first of all on acquiring a better understanding of users and of information-seeking behaviour through user-oriented qualitative research.
▪ We share interests in oral history, qualitative research and social theory.
▪ This conclusion was reinforced by the results of qualitative research.
▪ It is such comments which make the difficult work of committed qualitative research worthwhile.
▪ The teaching of computer-based techniques in qualitative research in advanced research methods training iii.
study
▪ The main focus of the project was a qualitative study of what helped adults cope on these courses.
▪ But the fullness of the material makes possible qualitative study with particularly interesting insights into popular opinions and activities.
▪ Consequently, more recent approaches have placed greater emphasis on the qualitative study of individual experiences and needs.
▪ No purely qualitative study is likely to answer all questions about a flow.
▪ One hundred men will be interviewed in depth during the course of the two year qualitative study.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The research involves qualitative analysis of students' performance.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As in qualitative sociology, dialogue is seen as evidence and, therefore, to be presented and digested on its own.
▪ But the fullness of the material makes possible qualitative study with particularly interesting insights into popular opinions and activities.
▪ Finally, retroactive cost justification fails because it never takes into account the qualitative costs that self-defeating actions inflict on organizational performance.
▪ His global qualitative comparison thus seeks to explain why and how countries became democratic during this period.
▪ Studies range from a qualitative type of food habit inquiry to a much more precise quantitative one.
▪ The nature of pollution control work demands instead essentially qualitative judgements of field officers' abilities.
▪ The quantitative dejobbing going on today leads to qualitative dejobbing.
▪ This is the essence of the problem that qualitative costs pose for struggling organizations: they are both undeniable and unmeasurable.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
qualitative

Analysis \A*nal"y*sis\, n.; pl. Analyses. [Gr. ?, fr. ? to unloose, to dissolve, to resolve into its elements; ? up + ? to loose. See Loose.]

  1. A resolution of anything, whether an object of the senses or of the intellect, into its constituent or original elements; an examination of the component parts of a subject, each separately, as the words which compose a sentence, the tones of a tune, or the simple propositions which enter into an argument. It is opposed to synthesis.

  2. (Chem.) The separation of a compound substance, by chemical processes, into its constituents, with a view to ascertain either

    1. what elements it contains, or

    2. how much of each element is present. The former is called qualitative, and the latter quantitative analysis.

  3. (Logic) The tracing of things to their source, and the resolving of knowledge into its original principles.

  4. (Math.) The resolving of problems by reducing the conditions that are in them to equations.

    1. A syllabus, or table of the principal heads of a discourse, disposed in their natural order.

    2. A brief, methodical illustration of the principles of a science. In this sense it is nearly synonymous with synopsis.

  6. (Nat. Hist.) The process of ascertaining the name of a species, or its place in a system of classification, by means of an analytical table or key.

    Ultimate, Proximate, Qualitative, Quantitative, and Volumetric analysis. (Chem.) See under Ultimate, Proximate, Qualitative, etc.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
qualitative

early 15c., "that produces a (physical) quality," from Medieval Latin qualitativus "relating to quality," from stem of Latin qualitas "a quality, property, nature" (see quality). Meaning "concerned with quality" is from c.1600 in English, from French qualitatif or Medieval Latin qualitativus. Related: Qualitatively.

Wiktionary
qualitative

a. 1 of descriptions or distinctions based on some quality rather than on some quantity 2 (context chemistry English) of a form of analysis that yields the identity of a compound n. Something qualitative.

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WordNet
qualitative

  1. adj. involving distinctions based on qualities; "qualitative change"; "qualitative data"; "qualitative analysis determines the chemical constituents of a substance or mixture" [ant: quantitative]

  2. relating to or involving comparisons based on qualities

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Wikipedia
Qualitative

Qualitative''' descriptions or distinctions are based on some quality or characteristic rather than on some quantity or measured value

Qualitative may also refer to:

  • Qualitative property, a property that can be observed but not measured numerically
  • Qualitative research, a research paradigm focusing on non-quantifiable measurements
  • Qualitative data, data that is not quantified
  • Qualitative observation, descriptive observations we make with our senses
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Usage examples of "qualitative".

Above all, let us strive to disengage ourselves from homogeneous space, this substratum of fixity, this arbitrary scheme of measurement and division, which, to our greater advantage, subtends the natural, qualitative, and undivided extension of images.

Human rations were fixed far below qualitative and quantitative minima for health, and within a short time, malnutrition, skin ailments, infections, and degenerative diseases began to kill millions.

The right of intervention figured prominently among the panoply of instruments accorded the United Nations by its Charter for maintaining international order, but the contemporary reconfiguration of this right represents a qualitative leap.

No qualitative distinctions to be forged, only quantative extensions to be measured.

There, without recognizing a qualitative distinction between them, he refers to the faculty of rubbed amber and of certain pieces of iron to attract other small pieces of matter.

On the other hand, they give no account of nonphysical, purely qualitative, sporadic, and unique phenomena.

Everything we might complain about in the computer -- its insistence upon dealing with abstractions, its reduction of the qualitative to a set of quantities, its insertion of a nonspatial but effective distance between users, its preference for unambiguous and efficiently manipulative relationships in all undertakings -- these computational traits have long been tendencies of our own thinking and behavior, especially as influenced by science.

Qualitative free content is often perceived by consumers to be a BONUS - hence its enhancing effect on sales.

It reads the affirmation of life and freedom as involving a repudiation of qualitative distinctions, a rejection of constitutive goods as such, while these are themselves reflections of qualitative distinctions and presuppose some conception of qualitative goods.

Interiors deal with degrees of intentions, not extensions, and trying to convert all evolutionary changes into physical size is simply part of the flattening of the Kosmos, part of the brutalization of qualitative distinctions, that has marked the instrumentalism of all flatland ontologies.

The Great Chain tottered off into empirical observables, degrees of depth collapsed into degrees of span, interpretive dimensions disappeared into empirical action terms, and qualitative distinctions melted down into functional interrelations of span: the great interlocking order of empirical surfaces.

And, as the previous section on Habits of the heart makes obvious, Bellah has become quite sensitive to the importance of qualitative distinctions and ontological values in providing the meaning component of the desired integration, none of which can be covered by cybernetic or systems theory.

World Soul and Eco-Noetic Self is misinterpreted in terms of a flatland holism that, in leveling qualitative distinctions, paralyzes actions that would further the descent of that World Soul.

QUALITATIVE DISTINCTIONS The fact that actualization hierarchies involve a ranking of increasing holistic capacityor even a ranking of valueis deeply disturbing to believers in extreme heterarchy, who categorically reject any sort of actual ranking or judgments whatsoever.

In other words, the healing impulse comes from championing not functional fit (Lower Right) but mutual understanding (Lower Left) and interior qualitative distinctions (Upper Left).