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