quant

¹

[ kwahnt ]

noun

1. Business Slang. an expert in quantitative analysis.

Quant

²

[ kwahnt ]

noun

1. Dame Mary Barbara Mary Quant, 1930–2023, English fashion designer and entrepreneur: often credited as the principal designer of the miniskirt in the 1960s.

Quant

¹

/ kwɒnt /

noun

1. QuantMary1934FBritishFASHION, BEAUTY, ETC: fashion designer Mary. born 1934, British fashion designer, whose Chelsea Look of miniskirts and geometrically patterned fabrics dominated London fashion in the 1960s

quant

²

/ kwɒnt /

noun

1. a long pole for propelling a boat, esp a punt, by pushing on the bottom of a river or lake

verb

1. to propel (a boat) with a quant

quant

³

/ kwɒnt /

noun

1. informal.
   a highly paid computer specialist with a degree in a quantitative science, employed by a financial house to predict the future price movements of securities, commodities, currencies, etc

Word History and Origins

Origin of quant¹

An Americanism dating back to 1985–90; by clipping

Word History and Origins

Origin of quant¹

C15: probably from Latin contus a pole, from Greek kontos

Origin of quant²

C20: from quantitative

Example Sentences

His father worked in a car battery factory, while his mother, a trained teacher in Jamaica, became a seamstress for Mary Quant.

From BBC

Founded in 2001 by Mr. Siegel, Mr. Overdeck and Mark Pickard, who has since retired, Two Sigma is one of a handful of “quant” firms, which apply a quantitative approach — the use of mathematical models rather than human decision-making to find patterns in historical data and other financial information — to trade stocks, bonds and more esoteric assets.

From New York Times

It put its name on an arena and celebrities in its ads; Bankman-Fried cultivated an image as a wild-haired savant, a former Wall Street quant who became a crypto luminary in the name of giving away his wealth to erase poverty and avert planetary destruction.

From Slate

Up stepped Joseph Pimbley, a longtime financial consultant fluent in physics, software code, mathematics, and quant trades—kinda like SBF and his friends.

From Slate

Bankman-Fried undoubtedly makes for the most compelling character in this story—a quick-thinking former Wall Street quant, always clad in cargo shorts and a T-shirt, who amassed a multibillion-dollar fortune before the age of 30, purportedly for the sake of giving it away for the greater good.

From Slate

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