ANALYTIC

analytic, analytical

(adjective) of a proposition that is necessarily true independent of fact or experience; “‘all spinsters are unmarried’ is an analytic proposition”

analytic, uninflected

(adjective) expressing a grammatical category by using two or more words rather than inflection

analytic, analytical

(adjective) using or skilled in using analysis (i.e., separating a whole--intellectual or substantial--into its elemental parts or basic principles); “an analytic experiment”; “an analytic approach”; “a keenly analytic man”; “analytical reasoning”; “an analytical mind”

analytic

(adjective) using or subjected to a methodology using algebra and calculus; “analytic statics”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Adjective

analytic (comparative more analytic, superlative most analytic)

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.

(complex analysis) Holomorphic; complex-differentiable.

(linguistics) Of a language, having a grammar principally dependent on the arrangement of uninflected words within sentences to indicate meaning. Compare synthetic.

Antonyms

• (logical): contingent

Source: Wiktionary

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An`a*lyt"ic, An`a*lyt"ic*al, a. Etym: [Gr. analytique. See Analysis.]

Definition: Of or pertaining to analysis; resolving into elements or constituent parts; as, an analytical experiment; analytic reasoning;

– opposed to synthetic. Analytical or coördinate geometry. See under Geometry.

– Analytic language, a noninflectional language or one not characterized by grammatical endings.

– Analytical table (Nat. Hist.), a table in which the characteristics of the species or other groups are arranged so as to facilitate the determination of their names.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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