Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective of or pertaining to analysis (definition 2).
- adjective (Logic) of a proposition; necessarily true independent of fact or experience, such as “all spinsters are unmarried”. Opposite of
synthetic . - adjective exercising or involving careful analytical evaluations.
- adjective capable of or given to analyzing; -- of people.
- adjective See under
Geometry . - adjective a noninflectional language or one not characterized by grammatical endings.
- adjective (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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- adjective Of or pertaining to
analysis ; resolving into elements or constituent parts; as, an analytical experiment - adjective Analytic reasoning as opposed to
synthetic .
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- adjective of a proposition that is necessarily true independent of fact or experience
- adjective using or skilled in using analysis (i.e., separating a whole--intellectual or substantial--into its elemental parts or basic principles)
Etymologies
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Examples
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When Western translations use the term analytical meditation for "discerning meditation," it gives the impression that this first phase of the meditation, inferential cognition, is the only phase.
The Relation between Shamatha, Vipashyana, and Discerning and Stabilizing Meditations 2004
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In addition to grammar in the sense we know the study to-day, grammar in the old Roman and mediaeval mind also included much of what we know as the analytical side of the study of literature, such as comparison, analysis, versification, prosody, word formations, figures of speech, and vocal expression (R. 76).
The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization Ellwood Patterson Cubberley 1904
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He proposed the development of an automatic computational machine, what he called the analytical engine, which he was not actually able to build given the technological limitations of his era.
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He has a highly pertinent comment, to my mind, when he notes that [d] ebate in analytical philosophy is not directionless.
Archive 2009-06-01 Hal Duncan 2009
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They are not old enough to understand all they see or do, so by the end their only recourse, and again it's intuitive rather than analytical, is to ride out to the McPheron brothers where they had been well-treated once before and sensed that there was some solace there.
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Instruction in analytical chemistry and physical chemistry seemed fine, but I learned very little organic chemistry.
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He has a highly pertinent comment, to my mind, when he notes that [d] ebate in analytical philosophy is not directionless.
Critique From HereNow Hal Duncan 2009
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Another prize in analytical chemistry was given to Jaroslav
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry: The Development of Modern Chemistry 2010
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It is consequently natural that not many Nobel Prizes have been awarded for contributions specifically in analytical chemistry.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry: The Development of Modern Chemistry 2010
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Cary Tennis tackles the issue of the "two body problem" at Salon. com when a graduate student in analytical chemistry writes that his girlfriend is heading to Berkeley, while he is still finishing up grad school and just received an offer from a lab in Toronto.
Archive 2007-06-01 Peggy 2007
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