analytic

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

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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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