Associations to the word «Analytical»

Wiktionary

ANALYTICAL, adjective. Of or pertaining to analysis; resolving into elements or constituent parts; as, an analytical experiment
ANALYTICAL, adjective. Using analytic reasoning as opposed to synthetic.
ANALYTICAL EDITING, noun. (cinematography) A cut-in during a scene to highlight a closer view of some part of the same space.
ANALYTICAL ENGINE, noun. (computing) A mechanical general-purpose computer, designed by Charles Babbage but never built.
ANALYTICAL ENTRY, noun. An entry in a bibliographic catalogue that describes a part of a larger work that has its own entry

Dictionary definition

ANALYTICAL, adjective. Using or skilled in using analysis (i.e., separating a whole--intellectual or substantial--into its elemental parts or basic principles); "an analytic experiment"; "an analytic approach"; "a keenly analytic man"; "analytical reasoning"; "an analytical mind".
ANALYTICAL, adjective. Of a proposition that is necessarily true independent of fact or experience; "`all spinsters are unmarried' is an analytic proposition".

Wise words

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Hippocrates