| qua | the act of discovering or expressing the quantity of something |
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| qua | a limitation imposed on the variables of a proposition (as by the quantifiers `some' or `all' or `no') |
| qua | (grammar) a word that expresses a quantity (as `fifteen' or `many') |
| qua | (logic) a word (such as `some' or `all` or `no') that binds the variables in a logical proposition |
| qua | express as a number or measure or quantity |
| qua | use as a quantifier |
| qua | the act of dividing into quanta or expressing in terms of quantum theory |
| qua | physics: apply quantum theory to |
| qua | telecommunications: approximate (a signal varying continuously in amplitude) by one whose amplitude is restricted to a prescribed set of discrete values |
| qua | expressible as a quantity or relating to or susceptible of measurement |
| qua | (of verse) having a metric system based on relative duration of syllables |
| qua | relating to the measurement of quantity |