Analytic or analytical may refer to:

Chemistry

  • Analytical chemistry, the analysis of material samples to learn their chemical composition and structure
  • Analytical technique, a method that is used to determine the concentration of a chemical compound or chemical element
  • Analytical concentration

Mathematics

  • Abstract analytic number theory, the application of ideas and techniques from analytic number theory to other mathematical fields
  • Analytic combinatorics, a branch of combinatorics that describes combinatorial classes using generating functions
  • Analytic element method, a numerical method used to solve partial differential equations
  • Analytic expression or analytic solution, a mathematical expression using well-known operations that lend themselves readily to calculation
  • Analytic geometry, the study of geometry based on numerical coordinates rather than axioms
  • Analytic number theory, a branch of number theory that uses methods from mathematical analysis

Mathematical analysis

  • Analytic function, a function that is locally given by a convergent power series
  • Analytic capacity, a number that denotes how big a certain bounded analytic function can become
  • Analytic continuation, a technique to extend the domain of definition of a given analytic function
  • Analytic manifold, a topological manifold with analytic transition maps
  • Analytic variety, the set of common solutions of several equations involving analytic functions

Set theory

  • Analytical hierarchy, an extension of the arithmetical hierarchy
  • Analytic set, the continuous image of a Polish space

Proof theory

  • Analytic proof, in structural proof theory, a proof whose structure is simple in a special way
  • Analytic tableau, a tree structure used to analyze logical formulas

Computer science

  • Analytic or reductive grammar, a kind of formal grammar that works by successively reducing input strings to simpler forms
  • Analytics, to find meaningful patterns in data

Other science and technology

  • Analytic signal, a particular representation of a signal
  • Analytical mechanics, a refined, highly mathematical form of classical mechanics
  • Analytical balance, a very high precision (0.1 mg or better) weighing scale

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Philosophy

  • Analytic philosophy, a style of philosophy that came to dominate English-speaking countries in the 20th century
  • Analytic proposition, a statement whose truth can be determined solely through analysis of its meaning
  • Analytical Thomism, the movement to present the thought of Thomas Aquinas in the style of modern analytic philosophy
  • Postanalytic philosophy, describes a detachment from the mainstream philosophical movement of analytic philosophy, which is the predominant school of thought in English-speaking countries

Social sciences

Psychology

  • Analytical psychology, part of the Jungian psychology movement
  • Cognitive analytic therapy, a form of psychological therapy initially developed in the UK by Anthony Ryle
  • Psychoanalysis, a set of psychological and psychotherapeutic theories and associated techniques

Sociology

  • Analytic induction, the systematic examination of similarities between various social phenomena to develop concepts or ideas
  • Analytic frame, a detailed sketch or outline of some social phenomenon, representing initial idea of a scientist analyzing this phenomenon

Politics

  • Analytical Marxism, an interpretation of Marxism

Linguistics

  • Analytic language, a natural language in which most morphemes are free (separate), instead of fused together

Other areas

  • Analytical jurisprudence, the use of analytical reasoning to study legal theory
  • Analytic journalism, seeks to make sense of a complex reality in order to create public understanding
  • Analytic cubism, one of two major branches of the cubism artistic movement
  • Analytical skills

See also

  • Analytics (disambiguation)
  • Analysis (disambiguation)
  • Analytical Engine, a 19th-century mechanical general-purpose computer designed by Charles Babbage
  • Analytical Society, a 19th-century British group who promoted the use of Leibnizian or analytical calculus, as opposed to Newtonian calculus
  • Synthesis (disambiguation)