analytical purposes

collocation in English

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analytical
adjective
uk
/ˌæn.əˈlɪt.ɪ.kəl/
us
/ˌæn.əˈlɪt̬.ɪ.kəl/
examining or liking to examine things in detail, in order to discover more ...
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purpose
noun
uk
/ˈpɜː.pəs/
us
/ˈpɝː.pəs/
why you do something or why ...
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The withdrawals involved only very small quantities of material to be used for analytical purposes and are all regarded as permanent.
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For analytical purposes, the starting point used for such comparisons, for each triplet, is the end of the initial culling operation in the proactive trial area.
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Dashboards for analytical purposes often include more context, comparisons, and history, along with subtler performance evaluators.
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The steel deck-plate-and-ribs system may be idealized for analytical purposes as an orthogonal-anisotropic plate, hence the abbreviated designation orthotropic.
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Nevertheless, the concept of a bandlimited signal is a useful idealization for theoretical and analytical purposes.
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Nor would that serve a usefulanalyticalpurpose, since such an overview would merely contribute yet another schema of classification.
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The others deemed that for analytical purposes, one should distinguish between various forms of identity.
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For analytical purposes, religious resources may be divided into four major categories.
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There exist various dimensions or types of identity, and it may be worthwhile, for analytical purposes, to undertake a classification of these.
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For descriptive and analytical purposes, a single cycle of a sine wave was fit to each neuron's phase tuning function.
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Mathematical knowledge includes all the layers, and their separation is done for analytical purposes only.
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Talk as we may for comparative analytical purposes about ideal 'regime types', no actual welfare state is characterized by a single unified animating idea.
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Although we distinguish substantive and formal legitimation for analytical purposes, it should be recognised that they are frequently combined.
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This last the composer may never have seen or sanctioned, made after the event for descriptive, explanatory or analytical purposes.
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Most theories of international relations separate out internal and external forces for analytical purposes, but this book attempts something different.
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But for analytical purposes in the next sections of this article, each of the three stateness dimensions is explored individually.
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For analytical purposes, it is assumed that the lease has an infinite time horizon, unless otherwise stated.
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This leads us t o equality of an ensemble average and a volume average, which is probably the most convenient kind of average for analytical purposes.
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