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quantoid

quantoid noun: an academic who relies purely on quantitative research methods.

Noun

quantoid (plural quantoids)

  1. (derogatory) An academic who relies purely on quantitative research methods.
    • […] quantoids and qualitoids have developed different languages and different approaches to their topics. They are accustomed to arguing with each other or ignoring each other.2001, John Gerring, Social Science Methodology: A Criterial Framework, page 2
    • The latter, for example, are overheard dismissing the former as mere “quantoids”—as if quantitative methods turn those who deploy them into machinelike expellers of numeric waste.2015, Immanuel Wallerstein, Carlos Aguirre Rojas, Charles C. Lemert, Uncertain Worlds: World-systems Analysis in Changing Times
  2. (obsolete) The left hand side of a linear differential equation whose right hand side is zero.
    • It indicates a certain relation between two differential equations, quantoids, or quotoids, whereof one is a transformation of the other by change of the independent variable.1875, Philosophical Magazine, page 440

Forms of quantoid

pluralquantoids

Questions about quantoid

What does quantoid mean?
Quantoid means an academic who relies purely on quantitative research methods.
What part of speech is quantoid?
Quantoid is a noun.
What is the plural of quantoid?
The plural of quantoid is quantoids.

Words near quantoid in the dictionary

  1. quantizes
  2. quantizing
  3. quantland
  4. Quantock Hills
  5. Quantocks
  6. quantoid
  7. quantoids
  8. quantomania
  9. quantomechanic
  10. quantomechanical
  11. quantomechanics

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