adj. Of or pertaining to analysis; resolving into elements or constituent parts; as, an analytical experiment
adj. Analytic reasoning as opposed to synthetic.
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adj. of or pertaining to analysis (definition 2).
adj. of a proposition; necessarily true independent of fact or experience, such as “all spinsters are unmarried”. Opposite of synthetic.
adj. exercising or involving careful analytical evaluations.
adj. capable of or given to analyzing; -- of people.
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adj. of a proposition that is necessarily true independent of fact or experience
adj. using or skilled in using analysis (i.e., separating a whole--intellectual or substantial--into its elemental parts or basic principles)
Word Usage
"He proposed the development of an automatic computational machine, what he called the analytical engine, which he was not actually able to build given the technological limitations of his era."