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Qualitatively

Qualitative \Qual"i*ta*tive\, a. [Cf. LL. gualitativus, F. qualitatif.] Relating to quality; having the character of quality. -- Qual"i*ta*tive*ly, adv.

Qualitative analysis (Chem.), analysis which merely determines the constituents of a substance without any regard to the quantity of each ingredient; -- contrasted with quantitative analysis.

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qualitatively

adv. 1 in a qualitative manner 2 with respect to quality rather than quantity

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qualitatively

adv. in a qualitative manner; "this discoloration qualitatively suggests that the substance is low in inorganic iron"

Usage examples of "qualitatively".

Therefore, we have reached the inescapable conclusion that fantasy is qualitatively deficient.

There would be no fierce debates with the Russians and French over whether Iraq is qualitatively disarmed.

But it is only the same quality that can be measured by degrees and ranged in ascending and descending series, and the things that are essentially feminine are different qualitatively from and incommensurable with the distinctly masculine things.

Yet the fact is that from this starting-point the strict logic of mathematics led him to the discovery that electricity is capable of behaviour which makes it appear qualitatively similar to .

For these sensations are qualitatively something quite different, and, although without them no perception of the object is possible, they do not by themselves convey a knowledge of the thing perceived.

We have left them out of our considerations because these regions of the spectrum differ from the visible part not only quantitatively, as present-day science believes, but qualitatively also, and in a fundamental way.

Seeing the same pattern occur in maps that relate to qualitatively different aspects of music strongly suggests to us that there is something deeper going on here.

We now seek to understand the implications of this qualitatively new kind of string motion on the string itself as well as on the geometrical properties of the dimension it wraps.

It would seem that users will not pay for content unless it is unavailable elsewhere or qualitatively rare or made rare.

The harnessing of steam, the application of electricity, and the exploitation of oil all opened up eras of wealth creation that were as qualitatively distinct from each other as they were from the economies based on wind, water, and muscle power of the Middle Ages.

Hitherto the computer was only quantitatively different - the multimedia and the Internet have made it qualitatively superior, actually, sui generis, unique.