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Quantitative analysis   /kwˈɑntɪtˌeɪtɪv ənˈæləsəs/   Listen
noun
Analysis  n.  (pl. analyses)  
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 (a) what elements it contains, or (b) 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.
5.
(a)
A syllabus, or table of the principal heads of a discourse, disposed in their natural order.
(b)
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 analysis, Proximate analysis, Qualitative analysis, Quantitative analysis, and Volumetric analysis. (Chem.) See under Ultimate, Proximate, Qualitative, etc.


adjective
Quantitative  adj.  Relating to quantity.
Quantitative analysis (Chem.), analysis which determines the amount or quantity of each ingredient of a substance, by weight or by volume; contrasted with qualitative analysis.





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"Quantitative analysis" Quotes from Famous Books



... At night, in his dreams, she returns, but never for a season may he look on her face of loveliness. What, alas! have evaporation, caloric, atmosphere, refraction, the prism, and the second planet of our system, to do with "sad Hesper o'er the buried sun?" From quantitative analysis how shall he turn again to "the rime of the ancient mariner," and "the moving moon" that "went up the sky, and nowhere did abide"? From his window he gazes across the sands to the mightily troubled ocean: "What is the storm to me any more!" he cries; "it is but the clashing of countless ...
— A Dish Of Orts • George MacDonald
... of the qualitative analysis were that the stone contains silica, magnesia, a little alumina, oxide of iron and nickel, a little tin, an alloy of iron and nickel, phosphoric acid, and a trace of chlorine. These ingredients being determined, the plan for a quantitative analysis was laid out, and was duly executed by the usual and approved methods The following are the results ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 530, February 27, 1886 • Various
... career supposedly ahead of him. The professor, downright and enthusiastic in his utterances, pooh-poohed the entire ministerial idea. Nonsense! Absurd! Spoil a chemist to make a parson! Preposterous! Any one could preach, if he tried. Not one man in a dozen could even make a quantitative analysis tally up, and get anywhere near as much material out of it as went in. Waste on flourishing gestures those lithe hands that were so obviously created for the manipulation of such delicate things as balances ...
— The Brentons • Anna Chapin Ray
... A quantitative analysis has led me to present statistics of its production and manufacture which would seem inexcusably braggart if it were not to remind the French and my own countrymen that it was the geographical descendants of France who, out of the wealth ...
— The French in the Heart of America • John Finley
... stand in the dark for several days at a temperature not exceeding 30 deg. C. (86 deg. Fahr.) At first the solution from green turns to a yellow green, and finally becomes almost brown. At this moment the excess of ferric oxide is filtered out and the liquor submitted to a quantitative analysis, the result of which leads to ascertain the quantity of ferric oxalate in 100 parts of the solution and the excess of oxalic acid. The solution should then be diluted with distilled water, such as it contains 20 parts of ferric oxalate ...
— Photographic Reproduction Processes • P.C. Duchochois


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