Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

quantoid

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: quan-toid
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An academic who relies purely on quantitative research methods.

Derogatory

noun

The left hand side of a linear differential equation whose right hand side is zero.

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"[…] 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."
"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."
"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."

Usage

Inflected Forms

quantoids (plural)

Questions

What does quantoid mean?: An academic who relies purely on quantitative research methods.

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