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noun Genetics.

a character or trait that is transmitted by quantitative inheritance.

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Also called quantitative trait .

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How to use quantitative character in a sentence

The charge is the quantitative character of certain events due to the ingression of the electron into nature.
The Concept of Nature|Alfred North Whitehead
The defect in gustatory acuteness seemed to him generally to be rather of a qualitative than quantitative character.
The Criminal|Havelock Ellis
First, the quantitative character of the ancient rhythms as opposed to the accentual character of English verse.
A History of English Versification|Jakob Schipper
But to complete our account of it, we must briefly consider its quantitative character.
Logic|Carveth Read

They could not, as they conceived the physical world, accept its purely quantitative character.
Creative Intelligence|John Dewey, Addison W. Moore, Harold Chapman Brown, George H. Mead, Boyd H. Bode, Henry Waldgrave, Stuart James, Hayden Tufts, Horace M. Kallen