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Definition of qualitative
: of, relating to, or involving quality or kind
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The primary driver for that is concern that American missile-defense technology might experience a huge qualitative leap, rendering the U.S. largely impervious to a ballistic-missile attack. — Ankit Panda, The New Republic, "The Absurd Strategy Behind Russia鈥檚 Nuclear Explosion," 21 Aug. 2019 Feldman expects to contribute to a speed-up that will yield not just a quantitative improvement in A.I. but a qualitative leap in the deep networks that can be built. — Fortune, "Seeking Big A.I. Advances, a Startup Turns to a Huge Computer Chip," 19 Aug. 2019 Under this system, funds are given gold, silver, bronze, neutral or negative ratings based on qualitative assessments by the company鈥檚 analysts. — Dawn Lim, WSJ, "Morningstar Overhauls Influential Ratings System," 28 June 2019 So this is our qualitative Problem 3: Can a gene act in a metaphorically selfish way and unfairly undercut one of its competitive alleles? — Quanta Magazine, "Are Genes Selfish or Cooperative?," 14 Sep. 2017 Sarah Mayorga-Gallo is a qualitative sociologist and author who studies race, inequality, and Latinx migration. — Ellen Mcgirt, Fortune, "Who Won the Democratic Debate?: raceAhead," 1 Aug. 2019 This position was reinforced by the fact that two of the 10 committee members voted to keep rates and qualitative tightening unchanged, and none voted to slash by 50 basis points. — Gwynn Guilford, Quartz, "With today鈥檚 rate cut, the Fed is jeopardizing its credibility," 31 July 2019 Standard quantitative methods collect superficial responses鈥攚hile standard qualitative methods place people in focus groups, in conversation with people who share their backgrounds and, often, views. — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, "What Happens When a Group of Strangers Spends a Day Debating Immigration?," 23 July 2019 But a group of scientists in the laboratories of the computational neuroscientist Matthias Bethge and the psychophysicist Felix Wichmann at the University of T眉bingen in Germany took a more qualitative approach. — Quanta Magazine, "Where We See Shapes, AI Sees Textures," 1 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'qualitative.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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qualitative
adjective
English Language Learners Definition of qualitative
: of or relating to how good something is : of or relating to the quality of something
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qualitative
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Medical Definition of qualitative
: of, relating to, or involving quality or kind
qualitative changes
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