analytic

  1. Adjective.  of, or relating to any form of analysis, or to analytics.
  2. Adjective.  of, or relating to division into elements or principles.
  3. Adjective.  having the ability to analyse.
  4. Adjective.  (logic) (''of a proposition'') that follows necessarily; tautologous.
  5. Adjective.  (mathematics) of, or relating to algebra or a similar method of analysis.
  6. Adjective.  (analysis) being defined in terms of objects of differential calculus such as derivatives.
  7. Adjective.  (linguistics) using multiple simple words, instead of inflection.

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