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Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This
an·a·lyt·ic
[an-l-it-ik] Pronunciation Key
[an-l-it-ik] Pronunciation Key –adjective
| 1. | pertaining to or proceeding by analysis (opposed to synthetic). |
| 2. | skilled in or habitually using analysis. |
| 3. | (of a language) characterized by a relatively frequent use of function words, auxiliary verbs, and changes in word order to express syntactic relations, rather than of inflected forms. Compare synthetic (def. 3), polysynthetic (def. 1). |
| 4. | Logic. (of a proposition) necessarily true because its denial involves a contradiction, as “All husbands are married.” |
| 5. | Mathematics.
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American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
| an·a·lyt·ic
(ān'ə-lĭt'ĭk) Pronunciation Key
adj.
[Medieval Latin analyticus, from Greek analutikos, from analūein, to resolve; see analysis.] an'a·lyt'i·cal·ly adv. |
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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| analytical | |
adjective | |
| 1. | 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" [syn: analytic] [ant: synthetic] |
| 2. | of a proposition that is necessarily true independent of fact or experience; "'all spinsters are unmarried' is an analytic proposition" [syn: analytic] [ant: synthetic] |
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