analytic

analytic
or analytical adjective Etymology: Late Latin analyticus, from Greek analytikos, from analyein Date: 1601 1. of or relating to analysis or analytics; especially separating something into component parts or constituent elements 2. being a proposition (as “no bachelor is married”) whose truth is evident from the meaning of the words it contains — compare synthetic 3. skilled in or using analysis especially in thinking or reasoning <
a keenly analytic person
>
4. characterized by analysis rather than inflection <
analytic languages
>
5. psychoanalytic 6. treated or treatable by or using the methods of algebra and calculus 7. a. of a function of a real variable capable of being expanded in a Taylor's series in powers of x - h in some neighborhood of the point h b. of a function of a complex variable differentiable at every point in some neighborhood of a given point • analytically adverbanalyticity noun

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  • analytic — [an΄ə lit′ik] adj. [ML analyticus < Gr analytikos < analytos, soluble: see ANALYSIS] 1. of analysis or analytics 2. that separates into constituent parts 3. skilled in or using analysis [an analytic mind] 4. Linguis. expressing syntactic… …   English World dictionary

  • Analytic — An a*lyt ic, Analytical An a*lyt ic*al, a. [Gr. ?: cf. F. analytique. See {Analysis}.] Of or pertaining to analysis; resolving into elements or constituent parts; as, an analytical experiment; opposed to {synthetic}. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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  • analytic — index deductive, discursive (analytical), logical Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • analytic — (adj.) c.1600, from M.L. analyticus, from Gk. analytikos analytical, from analytos dissolved (see ANALYSIS (Cf. analysis)) …   Etymology dictionary

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