Analytic Definition & Meaning

analytic
adjective
  1. using or subjected to a methodology using algebra and calculus; "analytic statics"
  2. 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"
  3. expressing a grammatical category by using two or more words rather than inflection
  4. of a proposition that is necessarily true independent of fact or experience; "`all spinsters are unmarried' is an analytic proposition"

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