Thesaurus: analytical

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1. a. Of or pertaining to analysis; resolving into elements or constituent parts; as, an analytical experiment; analytic reasoning; -- opposed to synthetic.
2. adj. using or skilled in using analysis (i.e., separating a whole — intellectual or substantial — into its elemental parts or basic principles)
3. adj. of a proposition that is necessarily true independent of fact or experience
4. Of or pertaining to analysis; resolving into elements or constituent parts; as, an analytical experiment; analytic reasoning; -- opposed to synthetic. Analytical or coördinate 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.
5. j:100 a using or skilled in using analysis (i.e., separating a whole--intellectual or substantial--into its elemental parts or basic principles) a of a proposition that is necessarily true independent of fact or experience