Definition of "analytic"

Of, or relating to any form of analysis, or to analytics.  examples

Of, or relating to division into elements or principles.  examples

Having the ability to analyse.  examples

(logic, of a proposition) that follows necessarily; tautologous.  examples

(mathematics) Of, or relating to algebra or a similar method of analysis.  examples

(mathematical analysis) Being defined in terms of objects of differential calculus such as derivatives.  examples

(mathematics, of a function) Being able to be locally represented by convergent power series around every point of the domain.  examples

(linguistics) Of a language, having a grammar principally dependent on the arrangement of uninflected words within sentences to indicate meaning. Compare synthetic.  examples