Adjective
Alt. of Analytical
Source: Webster's dictionaryA function of a variable quantity is an analytic expression composed in any way whatsoever of the variable quantity and numbers or constant quantities. Leonhard Euler
Just then, with a wink and a sly normal lurch, The owl very gravely got down from his perch, Walked round, and regarded his fault-finding critic (Who thought he was stuffed) with a glance analytic. James Thomas Fields
It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic. Edgar Allan Poe
Because we cannot yet (1) characterize all the possible experimental designs along quantitative scales and (2) generate cost-of-error functions, comparisons must be made in specific contexts rather than by use of analytic optimizing. Russell L. Ackoff
After the new forms are introduced into the language, it is possible to formulate with their help internal questions and possible answers to them. A question of this kind may be either empirical or logical; accordingly a true answer is either factually true or analytic. Rudolf Carnap
When analytic thought, the knife, is applied to experience, something is always killed in the process. Robert M. Pirsig