Analytic
WordNet
adjective
(1) Of a proposition that is necessarily true independent of fact or experience
"`all spinsters are unmarried' is an analytic proposition"
(2) Expressing a grammatical category by using two or more words rather than inflection
(3) 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"
(4) Using or subjected to a methodology using algebra and calculus
"Analytic statics"
WiktionaryText
Adjective
- 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
- (of a proposition) that follows necessarily; tautologous
- of, or relating to algebra or a similar method of analysis
- being defined in terms of objects of differential calculus such as derivatives
- using multiple simple words, instead of inflection