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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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... Conventionist; a continuation of the Illustrated Edition of Defauconpret's Translation of the complete works of Walter Scott; an admirable fac-simile collection of Contemporary Portraits of Eminent Individuals of the Sixteenth Century; a reprint of Boileau's Satires; an Alphabetical and Analytical Table of all the Authors, Sacred and Profane, discovered or published in the forty-three volumes of the celebrated Cardinal Mai; a 'Month in Africa,' by Pierre Napoleon Buonaparte, &c. There have also been more than ...

— International Weekly Miscellany Vol. I. No. 3, July 15, 1850 • Various

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— The Mental Life of Monkeys and Apes - A Study of Ideational Behavior • Robert M. Yerkes

... "that is not at all fair. I can assure you that I was taking you most seriously. The people who get most out of life are the people who avoid the analytical attitude, who enjoy but who do not seek to understand, who worship form and external beauty without the desire to penetrate below to understand the inner meaning of what they find ...

— The Master Mummer • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... It is in a thorough acquaintance with his private life that this disillusioned age will find the secret springs of the drama of his marvelous career. The great men of former ages were veiled from us by a cloud of prejudice which even the good sense of Plutarch scarcely penetrated. Our age, more analytical and freer from illusions, in the great man seeks to find the individual. It is by this searching test that the present puts aside all illusions, and that the future will seek to justify its judgments. In the council of state, the statesman is in his robe, on the battlefield the warrior ...

— The Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte • Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton

... motion. As a mere machine, the solar system, so far as it was then known, was found to be complete and intelligible in all its parts; and in the Mecanique Celeste its mechanical perfections were displayed under a form of majestic unity which fitly commemorated the successive triumphs of analytical genius over problems amongst the most arduous ever dealt with by ...

— A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century - Fourth Edition • Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke

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