analytical

Main Entry:: an·a·lyt·ic
Pronunciation:: \ˌa-nə-ˈli-tik\
Variant(s):: or an·a·lyt·i·cal \-ti-kəl\
Function:: adjective
Etymology:: Late Latin analyticus, from Greek analytikos, from analyein
Date:: 1601

1: of or relating to analysis or analytics ; especially : separating something into component parts or constituent elements2: being a proposition (as “no bachelor is married”) whose truth is evident from the meaning of the words it contains — compare synthetic3: skilled in or using analysis especially in thinking or reasoning <a keenly analytic person>4: characterized by analysis rather than inflection <analytic languages>5: psychoanalytic6: treated or treatable by or using the methods of algebra and calculus7 aof a function of a real variable : capable of being expanded in a Taylor's series in powers of x − h in some neighborhood of the point h bof a function of a complex variable : differentiable at every point in some neighborhood of a given point

— an·a·lyt·i·cal·ly

\-ti-k(ə-)lē\ adverb

— an·a·ly·tic·i·ty

\ˌa-nə-lə-ˈti-sə-tē\ noun

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