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Definition of Descriptive

Descriptive
Descriptive De*scrip"tive, a. [L. descriptivus: cf. F. descriptif.] Tending to describe; having the quality of representing; containing description; as, a descriptive figure; a descriptive phrase; a descriptive narration; a story descriptive of the age. Descriptive anatomy, that part of anatomy which treats of the forms and relations of parts, but not of their textures. Descriptive geometry, that branch of geometry. which treats of the graphic solution of problems involving three dimensions, by means of projections upon auxiliary planes. --Davies & Peck (Math. Dict. ) -- De*scrip"tive*ly, adv. -- De*scrip"tive*ness, n.

Meaning of Descriptive from wikipedia

- In the study of language, description or descriptive linguistics is the work of objectively analyzing and describing how language is actually used (or...
- A descriptive statistic (in the count noun sense) is a summary statistic that quantitatively describes or summarizes features from a collection of information...
- Earlier editions were called Anatomy: Descriptive and Surgical, Anatomy of the Human Body and Gray's Anatomy: Descriptive and Applied, but the book's name...
- Descriptive notation is a chess notation system based on abbreviated natural language. Its distinctive features are that it refers to files by the piece...
- Descriptive geometry is the branch of geometry which allows the representation of three-dimensional objects in two dimensions by using a specific set...
- Descriptive research is used to describe characteristics of a po****tion or phenomenon being studied. It does not answer questions about how/when/why...
- Descriptive ethics, also known as comparative ethics, is the study of people's beliefs about morality. It contrasts with prescriptive or normative ethics...
- Descriptive botanical names are scientific names of groups of plants that are irregular, not being derived systematically from the name of a type genus...
- Effective descriptive set theory is the branch of descriptive set theory dealing with sets of reals having lightface definitions; that is, definitions...
- Spatial descriptive statistics is the intersection of spatial statistics and descriptive statistics; these methods are used for a variety of purposes in...