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English to English adjective
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using or skilled in using analysis (i.e., separating a whole--intellectual or substantial--into its elemental parts or basic principles) |  | Example: an analytic experiment
an analytic approach
a keenly analytic man
analytical reasoning
an analytical mind
source: wordnet30
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of a proposition that is necessarily true independent of fact or experience | | Example: `all spinsters are unmarried' is an analytic proposition
source: wordnet30
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