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Quantitative vs Quantized - What's the difference?

quantitative | quantized |

As adjectives the difference between quantitative and quantized

is that quantitative is of a measurement based on some quantity or number rather than on some quality while quantized is expressed or existing only in terms of discrete quanta; limited by the restrictions of quantization.

As a verb quantized is

past tense of quantize.

quantitative

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of a measurement based on some quantity or number rather than on some quality
  • (chemistry) Of a form of analysis that determines the amount of some element or compound in a sample

    • Related terms

    * quantity * quantitate

    Derived terms

    * quantitative analysis * quantitative analyst * quantitative easing * quantitativeness * quantitative research

    See also

    * qualitative * quantitate ----

    quantized

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (quantize)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (physics) Expressed or existing only in terms of discrete quanta; limited by the restrictions of quantization.
  • *2011 , & Jeff Forshaw, The Quantum Universe , Allen Lane 2011, p. 96:
  • *:This is very clear for the standing waves on a guitar string: the fundamental has a wavelength of twice the length of the string, and the next longest allowed wavelength is equal to the length of the string. There is no standing wave with a wavelength between these two and so we can say that the allowed wavelengths on a guitar string are quantized .