Definition of analytic
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: being a proposition (such as "no bachelor is married") whose truth is evident from the meaning of the words it contains — compare synthetic
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: skilled in or using analysis especially in thinking or reasoning
a keenly analytic person/mind an analytical study
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linguistics
: characterized by the use of function words rather than inflectional forms to express grammatical relationships
analytic languages
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: psychoanalytic
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mathematics
: treated or treatable by or using the methods of algebra and calculus
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mathematics
a
of 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
b
of a function of a complex variable
: differentiable at every point in some neighborhood of a given point
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The first known use of analytic was in 1601
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