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quant

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See also:Quantandquant'

English

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Pronunciation

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IPA^(key): /kwɒnt/
- Audio(Southern England): (file)
Rhymes:-ɒnt

Etymology 1

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Shortening.

Noun

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quant (pluralquants)

EnglishWikipedia has an article on:

Quantitative analyst

Wikipedia

(finance) Aquantitative analyst.
- 2014 January 30,Simon Roberts Was Here (The Crazy Ones), episode15:
  Judy Mills: Oh, and I was very excited to hear about your agency's new emphasis on hard numbers and data.
  Simon: Excuse me?
  Judy Mills: Yeah, I heard you hired aquant.
Short forquantity.
Short forquantifier.

Adjective

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quant (notcomparable)

Short forquantifiable.
Short forquantitative.

Derived terms

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quant fund

Etymology 2

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Uncertain. A borrowing fromLatincontus(“long pole”) has been suggested, but the-a- is problematic.

Noun

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quant (pluralquants)

Apunting pole with a broadflange near the end to prevent it from sinking into the mud; a setting pole.
Avertical shaft used to drive amillstone.

Derived terms

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quant pole

Verb

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quant (third-person singular simple presentquants,present participlequanting,simple past and past participlequanted)

(transitive or intransitive) Topropel using a quant.

Derived terms

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quanter

Anagrams

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nuqta

Catalan

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quant (femininequanta,masculine pluralquants,feminine pluralquantes)

(interrogative)how many;how much
(with the definite article)quite a bit;quite a few(considerably)
- 2019 August 12, Josep Maria Ganyet, “L’ordinador i la calma”, inLa Vanguardia‎^[1]:
  Per entendre de què estem parlant hem de fer una passa enrere... d’uns quants milions d’anys.
  To understand what we're talking about, we have to take a step back... ofquite a few million years.

Derived terms

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References

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“quant” inDiccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició,Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
“quant”, inGran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana,Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana,2025
“quant” inDiccionari normatiu valencià,Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
“quant” inDiccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

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Etymology

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Inherited fromLatinquantum.

Pronunciation

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IPA^(key): /kɑ̃/

Adverb

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quant

Only used inquant à

Middle French

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Etymology 1

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FromLatinquantus.

Adjective

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quant m (feminine singularquante,masculine pluralquants,feminine pluralquantes)

how many;how much
- 15th century, Rustichello da Pisa (original author), Mazarine Master (scribe),The Travels of Marco Polo, page6, line 8:
  Quant ils orent chevauchier ne sçayquantes iournees
  When they had ridden for I don't know how many days
  (please note, the first word 'quant' corresponds to etymology 2 below)