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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Analytic \An`a*lyt"ic\, Analytical \An`a*lyt"ic*al\, a. [Gr. ?: cf F. analytique See {Analysis}.] Of or pertaining to analysis; resolving into elements or constituent parts as an analytical experiment; analytic reasoning; -- opposed to {synthetic}. {Analytical} or {co["o]rdinate geometry}. See under {Geometry}. {Analytic language}, a noninflectional language or one not characterized by grammatical endings. {Analytical table} (Nat. Hist.), a table in which the characteristics of the species or other groups are arranged so as to facilitate the determination of their names From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: analytical adj 1: 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" [syn: {analytic}] [ant: {synthetic}] 2: (logic) of a proposition; necessarily true independent of fact or experience, as "all spinsters are unmarried" [syn: {analytic}] [ant: {synthetic}]
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