analytic.

1. Using analysis into parts or relations to understand something.

2. True by meaning or definition rather than by an empirical observation.

3. Locally representable by a convergent power series.

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Words that belong together

• analytic method
• analytic approach

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The analytic method separated premises from consequences.

An analytic approach revealed dependencies hidden in the summary.

Usage notes

Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Normally relational or categorical; comparison only where the particular property admits gradation. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: formal properties, scope and scale, organizational relations, analytic representation. Disciplines: academic writing, formal methods, cross-disciplinary analysis. Commonness: moderately common.