analytic

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• adjective Of or relating to analysis or analytics.
• adjective Expert in or using analysis, especially in thinking: synonym: logical.
• adjective Dividing into elemental parts or basic principles.
• adjective Reasoning or acting from a perception of the parts and interrelations of a subject.
• adjective Logic Following necessarily; tautologous.
• adjective Using, subjected to, or capable of being subjected to a methodology involving algebra or other methods of mathematical analysis.
• adjective Proving a known truth by reasoning from that which is to be proved.
• adjective Linguistics Expressing a grammatical function by using two or more words instead of an inflected form.

from The Century Dictionary.

• Relating to, of the nature of, or operating by analysis: opposed to synthetic, synthetical: as, an analytic mode of thought.
• In the Kantian logic, explicatory; involving a mere analysis or explication of knowledge, and not any material addition to it.
• In philology, deficient in inflections, and employing instead particles and auxiliary words to express modifications of meaning and to show the relations of words in a sentence: as, an analytic language.
• noun (only in the first form).
• noun One of the main divisions of logic, which treats of the criteria for distinguishing good and bad arguments.
• noun Analysis in the mathematical sense.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• adjective Of or pertaining to analysis; resolving into elements or constituent parts; ; -- opposed to synthetic.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• adjective of, or relating to any form of analysis, or to analytics
• adjective of, or relating to division into elements or principles
• adjective having the ability to analyse
• adjective logic (of a proposition) that follows necessarily; tautologous
• adjective mathematics of, or relating to algebra or a similar method of analysis
• adjective analysis being defined in terms of objects of differential calculus such as derivatives
• adjective linguistics using multiple simple words, instead of inflection

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• adjective using or skilled in using analysis (i.e., separating a whole--intellectual or substantial--into its elemental parts or basic principles)
• adjective of a proposition that is necessarily true independent of fact or experience
• adjective using or subjected to a methodology using algebra and calculus
• adjective expressing a grammatical category by using two or more words rather than inflection