QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does quantitative analysis mean? 

• QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS (noun)
  The noun QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS has 1 sense:

1. chemical analysis to determine the amounts of each element in the substance

  Familiarity information: QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Chemical analysis to determine the amounts of each element in the substance

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

quantitative analysis; quantitative chemical analysis

Hypernyms ("quantitative analysis" is a kind of...):

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

measure; measurement; measuring; mensuration (the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "quantitative analysis"):

colorimetric analysis; colorimetry (quantitative chemical analysis by color using a colorimeter)

volumetric analysis (quantitative analysis by the use of definite volumes of standard solutions or reagents)

volumetric analysis (determination of the volume of gases (or changes in their volume) during combination)

gravimetric analysis (quantitative analysis by weight)

 Context examples 

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

(Doctor of Social Work, 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)

A quantitative analysis of a toxic substance.

(Analytical Toxicology, NCI Thesaurus)