expressible as a quantity or relating to or susceptible of measurement; "export wheat without quantitative limitations"; "quantitative analysis determines the amounts and proportions of the chemical constituents of a substance or mixture"
(of verse) having a metric system based on relative duration of syllables; "in typical Greek and Latin verse of the classical period the rhymic system is based on some arrangement of long and short elements"
relating to the measurement of quantity; "quantitative studies"
The term quantitative refers to a type of information based in quantities or else quantifiable data (objective properties) ?as opposed to qualitative information which deals with apparent [(subjective properties). It may also refer to mass, time, or productivity.