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quantitative

 adjective
     
quan‧ti‧ta‧tive formal
relating to amounts rather than to the quality or standard of something [↪ qualitative]
quantitative analysis/methods/data etc
We need to do a proper quantitative analysis of this problem.
—quantitatively adverb
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