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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... him that he could not quit his theme till he had composed twenty-two quatrains. Only four or five—or at most only seven of them—are now in general use. Like his "Prayer is the Soul's Sincere Desire," they have the pith of devotional thought in them, but are less subjective and analytical. ...

— The Story of the Hymns and Tunes • Theron Brown and Hezekiah Butterworth

... by differences of opinion are soon healed; words count for nothing, and it is the soul that attracts or repels. Mr. Vane was not analytical, he had been through a harassing day, and he was unaware that it was not Austen's opposition, but Austen's smile, which set the torch to his anger. Once, shortly after his marriage, when he had come home in wrath after a protracted quarrel with Mr. Tredway over the orthodoxy of the new minister, ...

— The Crossing • Winston Churchill

... that they cannot secure a correct result. This is not the fault of the child, but the fault of the kind of arithmetic he has been given, and the way it has been taught. We have taught him the solution of various difficult, analytical problems not in the least typical of the concrete problems to be met daily outside of school; but we have not taught him to add, subtract, multiply, and divide with rapidity and accuracy. We have required him to solve problems containing fractions with large and irreducible denominators ...

— New Ideals in Rural Schools • George Herbert Betts

... see," he said, bustling his newspaper aside for me. "It is no discredit to your intelligence, Mr. Blakeley, but you lack the professional eye, the analytical mind. You legal gentlemen call a spade a spade, although ...

— The Man in Lower Ten • Mary Roberts Rinehart

... brain a gnat. But I do not think so. If heroic figures seem small on the operatic stage, it is the fault of either the author or the actor. When genius in a creator is paired with genius in an interpreter, the hero of an opera is quite as deserving of analytical study as the hero of a drama which is spoken. No labor would be lost in studying the character of Wagner's heroes in order to illuminate the impersonations of Niemann, Lehmann, or Scaria; nor is Maurel's lago less worthy of investigation than ...

— A Second Book of Operas • Henry Edward Krehbiel

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