analytic

Meanings

Adjective

• using or subjected to a methodology using algebra and calculus
  • "analytic statics"
• 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"
• expressing a grammatical category by using two or more words rather than inflection
• of a proposition that is necessarily true independent of fact or experience
  • "`all spinsters are unmarried' is an analytic proposition"

Adj

• 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.
• that follows necessarily by definition; tautologous.
• Of, or relating to algebra or a similar method of analysis.
• Being defined in terms of objects of differential calculus such as derivatives.
• Being able to be locally represented by convergent power series around every point of the domain.
• Of a language, having a grammar principally dependent on the arrangement of uninflected function words within sentences to indicate meaning. Compare synthetic.

Synonyms

analytical, uninflected

Antonyms

synthetic