analytical : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: analytical	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for analytical
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
analytical adj 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" Synonym(s): analytic, analytical Antonym(s): synthetic, synthetical of a proposition that is necessarily true independent of fact or experience; "`all spinsters are unmarried' is an analytic proposition" Synonym(s): analytic, analytical Antonym(s): synthetic, synthetical
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Analytic \An`alyt"ic\, Analytical* \An`alyt"ical\, a. [Gr. [?]: cf. F. analytique. See {Analysis}.] Of or pertaining to analysis; resolving into elements or constituent parts; as, an analytical experiment; analytic reasoning; -- opposed to {synthetic}. {Analytical} or {co[94]rdinate 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.