analytic: Meaning and Definition of

an•a•lyt•ic

1. pertaining to or proceeding by analysis (opposed to synthetic).
2. skilled in or habitually using analysis.
3. (of a language) characterized by a relatively frequent use of function words, auxiliary verbs, and changes in word order to express syntactic relations, rather than of inflected forms. Cf. synthetic (def. 3),(def. 1).
4. (of a proposition) necessarily true because its denial involves a contradiction, as “All husbands are married.”
1. (of a function of a complex variable) having a first derivative at all points of a given domain; holomorphic; regular.
2. (of a curve) having parametric equations that represent analytic functions.
3. (of a proof&hasp;) using analysis.