QUALITATIVE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Involving distinctions based on qualities

Example:

qualitative analysis determines the chemical constituents of a substance or mixture

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

soft (using evidence not readily amenable to experimental verification or refutation)

Antonym:

quantitative (expressible as a quantity or relating to or susceptible of measurement)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Relating to or involving comparisons based on qualities

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

qualitative analysis (the act of decomposing a substance into its constituent elements)

Credits

Context examples:

Much of the course work emphasizes qualitative and quantitative analysis methods.

(Doctor of Social Work, NCI Thesaurus)

The resulting antigen-antibody complexes fixed on the second gel may then be stained, allowing sensitive and specific qualitative visual identification of paraproteins by electrophoretic position.

(Immunofixation, NCI Thesaurus)

A state of an activity in relation to its execution, timing, objective(s) or other quantitative or qualitative parameter(s).

(Activity Status, NCI Thesaurus)

A qualitative or quantitative analysis performed to determine the amount of a particular constituent in a sample or the biological or pharmacological potency of a drug.

(Assay, NCI Thesaurus)

Qualitative bioassays are used for assessing the physical effects of a substance that may not be quantified, such as abnormal development or deformity.

(Device Bioassay Evaluation Method, Food and Drug Administration)

A functional (qualitative) as well as quantitative assay that is utilized as an indicator of granulopoiesis reconstitution.

(Colony-Forming Unit-Granulocyte Macrophage Assay, NCI Thesaurus)

An enzyme immunoassay for the qualitative detection of antibodies to human immunodeficiency viruses in human serum or plasma.

(Anti-HIV2 Enzyme Immunoassay, NCI Thesaurus)

An outcome of observation represented as a text, qualitative, or quantitative parameter, code, image, graph, etc.

(Observation Result, NCI Thesaurus)

The qualitative analysis gives a quite normal condition, and shows, I should infer, in itself a vigorous state of health.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Any method of quantitative or qualitative analysis that involves optics and/or the measurement of light.