Adjective
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""analytical reasoning""an analytical mind"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"