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Analytic vs Description - What's the difference?

analytic | description |

As an adjective analytic

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

As a noun description is

a sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration of the essential qualities of a thing or species.

analytic

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Alternative forms

* analytick

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • of, or relating to any form of analysis, or to analytics
  • of, or relating to division into elements or principles
  • having the ability to analyse
  • (logic) (of a proposition ) that follows necessarily; tautologous
  • (mathematics) of, or relating to algebra or a similar method of analysis
  • (analysis) being defined in terms of objects of differential calculus such as derivatives
  • (linguistics) using multiple simple words, instead of inflection
  • Antonyms

    * (linguistic) synthetic * (logical) contingent

    Derived terms

    () * analyticism * analyticity * analytic capacity * analytic combinatorics * analytic continuation * analytic cubism * analytic element method * analytic frame * analytic function * analytic geometry * analytic hierarchy * analytic induction * analytic language * analytic manifold * analytic number theory * analytic philosophy * analytic proof * analytic proposition * analytic psychology * analytic set * analytic signal * analytic solution * analytic variety * hyperanalytic * psychoanalytic

    description

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration of the essential qualities of a thing or species.
  • The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.
  • A set of characteristics by which someone or something can be recognized.
  • (biology) A scientific documentation of a specimen intended to reveal a new species by technically explaining its characteristics and particularly how it differs from other species.
  • The type description of the fungus was written by a botanist.

    Synonyms

    * (characteristics) sort, kind, type, variety

    See also

    * synopsis * interpretation

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