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Descriptively
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.

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- 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 research is used to describe characteristics of a po****tion or phenomenon being studied. It does not answer questions about how/when/why...
- Descriptive geometry is the branch of geometry which allows the representation of three-dimensional objects in two dimensions by using a specific set...
- 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 poetics is an analytic approach within literary studies. While the concept of poetics goes back to Aristotle, the term "descriptive poetics"...
- publications until the 1980s. Similar descriptive systems were in use in Spain and France. A few players still use descriptive notation, but it is no longer recognized...
- Descriptive poetry is the name given to a class of literature that belongs mainly to the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries in Europe. From the earliest times...
- Descriptive botanical names are scientific names of groups of plants that are irregular, not being derived systematically from the name of a type genus...
- In the study of language, description or descriptive linguistics is the work of objectively analyzing and describing how language is actually used (or...