ANALYTIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does analytic mean? 

• ANALYTIC (adjective)
  The adjective ANALYTIC has 4 senses:

1. using or subjected to a methodology using algebra and calculus

2. using or skilled in using analysis (i.e., separating a whole--intellectual or substantial--into its elemental parts or basic principles)

3. expressing a grammatical category by using two or more words rather than inflection

4. of a proposition that is necessarily true independent of fact or experience

  Familiarity information: ANALYTIC used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANALYTIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Using or subjected to a methodology using algebra and calculus

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

analytic statics

Domain category:

math; mathematics; maths (a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement)

Pertainym:

analysis (a branch of mathematics involving calculus and the theory of limits; sequences and series and integration and differentiation)

Derivation:

analysis (a branch of mathematics involving calculus and the theory of limits; sequences and series and integration and differentiation)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Using or skilled in using analysis (i.e., separating a whole--intellectual or substantial--into its elemental parts or basic principles)

Synonyms:

analytic; analytical

Context example:

an analytical mind

Antonym:

synthetic (involving or of the nature of synthesis (combining separate elements to form a coherent whole) as opposed to analysis)

Derivation:

analysis (the abstract separation of a whole into its constituent parts in order to study the parts and their relations)

analyticity (the property of being analytic)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Expressing a grammatical category by using two or more words rather than inflection

Synonyms:

analytic; uninflected

Similar:

isolating (relating to or being a language in which each word typically expresses a distinct idea and part of speech and syntactical relations are determined almost exclusively by word order and particles)

Domain category:

linguistics (the scientific study of language)

Antonym:

synthetic (systematic combining of root and modifying elements into single words)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Of a proposition that is necessarily true independent of fact or experience

Synonyms:

analytic; analytical

Context example:

'all spinsters are unmarried' is an analytic proposition

Also:

a priori (involving deductive reasoning from a general principle to a necessary effect; not supported by fact)

deductive (involving inferences from general principles)

logical (capable of or reflecting the capability for correct and valid reasoning)

Domain category:

logic (the branch of philosophy that analyzes inference)

Antonym:

synthetic (of a proposition whose truth value is determined by observation or facts)

 Context examples 

The integration of epidemiologic, sociological, economic, and other analytic sciences in the study of health services.

(Health Services Research, NCI Thesaurus)

Similar to Phased Innovation Award, created to support the pilot application of instrumentation, techniques and analytic tools relevant to research on the molecular biology of cancer.

(Phased Technology Application Award, NCI Thesaurus)

A descriptive or analytic study of risk factors or disease determinants in populations.

(Field Survey, NCI Thesaurus)

A test used with in vitro diagnostic analytic systems to detect substances that may be interfering with test results and causing errors.

(Device Interference Substance Testing Evaluation Method, Food and Drug Administration)

Techniques, specialties or disciplines for the development or modification of apparatus, instruments, or equipment for diagnostic or therapeutic procedures, analytic or other biological use.

(Biophysics, Bioengineering and Instrumentation, NCI Thesaurus)

In a lab test, this coded value would be associated with a single analytic procedure.

(Defined Activity Name Code, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

See analytic chemistry.

(Analytical Biochemistry, NCI Thesaurus)