connected with the amount or number of something rather than with how good it is 数量的;量化的;定量的 quantitative analysis/research 定量分析/研究 There is no difference between the two in quantitative terms. 两者在数量上毫无差别。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryQuantitative is used with these nouns:- analysis
- assessment
- change
- …
Word Originlate 16th cent. (in the sense ‘having magnitude’): from medieval Latin quantitativus, from Latin quantitas (translating Greek posotēs), from quantus ‘how great, how much’.