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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 In mathematics, analytic number theory is a branch of number theory that uses methods from mathematical analysis to solve problems about the integers. It is often said to have begun with Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet's 1837 introduction of Dir ...
, 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 A formal grammar is a set of Terminal and nonterminal symbols, symbols and the Production (computer science), production rules for rewriting some of them into every possible string of a formal language over an Alphabet (formal languages), alphabe ...
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


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 PsychoanalysisFrom Greek language, Greek: and is a set of theories and techniques of research to discover unconscious mind, unconscious processes and their influence on conscious mind, conscious thought, emotion and behaviour. Based on The Inte ...
, 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) {{disambiguation