Analytic vs. Analytical

Analytic vs. Analytical — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Analytic and Analytical

Analyticadjective

Of, or relating to any form of analysis, or to analytics.

Analyticaladjective

Of or pertaining to analysis; resolving into elements or constituent parts

an analytical experiment

Analyticadjective

Of, or relating to division into elements or principles.

Analyticaladjective

Using analytic reasoning as opposed to synthetic.

an analytical mind

Analyticadjective

Having the ability to analyse.

Analyticaladjective

using or skilled in using analysis (i.e., separating a whole--intellectual or substantial--into its elemental parts or basic principles);

an analytic experimentan analytic approacha keenly analytic mananalytical reasoningan analytical mind
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Analyticadjective

that follows necessarily; tautologous.

Analyticaladjective

of a proposition that is necessarily true independent of fact or experience;

`all spinsters are unmarried' is an analytic proposition

Analyticadjective

(mathematics) Of, or relating to algebra or a similar method of analysis.

Analyticadjective

(analysis) Being defined in terms of objects of differential calculus such as derivatives.

Analyticadjective

(complex analysis) Holomorphic; complex-differentiable.

Analyticadjective

(linguistics) Of a language, having a grammar principally dependent on the arrangement of uninflected words within sentences to indicate meaning. Compare synthetic.

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Analyticadjective

using or subjected to a methodology using algebra and calculus;

analytic statics

Analyticadjective

using or skilled in using analysis (i.e., separating a whole--intellectual or substantial--into its elemental parts or basic principles);

an analytic experimentan analytic approacha keenly analytic mananalytical reasoningan analytical mind

Analyticadjective

expressing a grammatical category by using two or more words rather than inflection

Analyticadjective

of a proposition that is necessarily true independent of fact or experience;

`all spinsters are unmarried' is an analytic proposition