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adjective

Analytical, Analytic adj. Of or pertaining to analysis; resolving into elements or constituent parts; as, an analytical experiment; opposed to synthetic.

analytical adj.

Of or pertaining to analysis (definition 2).

(Logic) Of a proposition; necessarily true independent of fact or experience, such as "all spinsters are unmarried". Opposite of synthetic. Also See: a priori, deductive, logical.

Exercising or involving careful analytical evaluations; as, analytic reasoning; an analytical discussion.

Synonyms: appraising(prenominal), evaluative.

Capable of or given to analyzing; of people. "An analytical mind"

Analytical geometry or coordinate geometry. See under Geometry.

Analytic language, a noninflectional language or one not characterized by grammatical endings.

Analytical table (Nat. Hist.), a table in which the characteristics of the species or other groups are arranged so as to facilitate the determination of their names.

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Etymology of 'Analytical'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Analytical" Quotes from Famous Books

... revocation of the edict, which, however, was simply caused by the universal complaining, and the tardy discovery of the fault committed in passing it. The little confidence in Law remaining was now radically extinguished; not an atom of it could ever be set afloat again. Seditious writings and analytical and reasonable pamphlets rained on all sides, and ...

— Marguerite de Navarre - Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois Queen of Navarre • Marguerite de Navarre

... the "Divine Painter") into some ingenious and recondite rebus. For such critical chopped-hay—sweeter to the modern taste than honey of Hybla—Charles Lamb had little relish. "I am, sir," he once boasted to an analytical, unimaginative proser who had insisted upon explaining some quaint passage in Marvell or Wither, "I am, sir, a matter-of-lie man." It was his best warrant to sit at the Muses' banquet. Charles Lamb was blessed with an intellectual palate as fine ...

— The Best Letters of Charles Lamb • Charles Lamb

... growth of the limbs, the probable straightness of the grain. His eye almost unconsciously sought the possibilities of location—whether a road could be brought in easily, whether the grades could run right. A fine tree gave him the complicated pleasure that comes to any expert on analytical contemplation of any object. It meant timber, good or bad, ...

— The Rules of the Game • Stewart Edward White

... muttered, doffing his cap gallantly. "There is a woman!" And a sudden hunger seized him, and a yearning to see himself mirrored always in the gray eyes of Frona Welse. He was not analytical; he did not know why; but he knew that with her he could travel to the end of the earth. He felt a distaste for his profession, and a temptation to throw it all over and strike out for the Klondike whither she was going; then he glanced ...

— A Daughter of the Snows • Jack London

... to see a little more clearly the meaning of things has always been heartily welcomed by those who have themselves been engaged in like researches. But, since the publication of the Principia, in 1687, there is probably no analytical success which has raised among astronomers such a feeling of admiration and gratitude as when Adams and Le Verrier showed the inequalities in Uranus's motion to mean that an unknown planet was in a certain place in the heavens, ...

— History of Astronomy • George Forbes

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