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analytic

[ an-l-it-ik ]

adjective

  1. pertaining to or proceeding by analysis ( synthetic ).
  2. skilled in or habitually using analysis.
  3. (of a language) characterized by a relatively frequent use of function words, auxiliary verbs, and changes in word order to express syntactic relations, rather than of inflected forms. Compare synthetic ( def 3 ), polysynthetic ( def 1 ).
  4. Logic. (of a proposition) necessarily true because its denial involves a contradiction, as “All husbands are married.”
  5. Mathematics.
    1. (of a function of a complex variable) having a first derivative at all points of a given domain; holomorphic; regular.
    2. (of a curve) having parametric equations that represent analytic functions.
    3. (of a proof ) using analysis.


analytic

/ ˌænəˈlɪtɪkəl; ˌænəˈlɪtɪk /

adjective

  1. relating to analysis
  2. capable of or given to analysing

    an analytic mind

  3. Alsoisolating linguistics denoting languages, such as Chinese, whose morphology is characterized by analysis Compare synthetic agglutinative polysynthetic
  4. logic of a proposition
    1. true by virtue of the meanings of the words alone without reference to the facts, as all spinsters are unmarried
    2. true or false by virtue of meaning alone; so all spinsters are married is analytically false Compare synthetic a priori
  5. Alsoregularholomorphic maths (of a function of a complex variable) having a derivative at each point of its domain
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˌanaˈlytically, adverb
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  • sem·i·an·a·lyt·i·cal·ly adverb
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  • un·an·a·lyt·i·cal adjective
  • un·an·a·lyt·i·cal·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of analytic1

First recorded in 1580–90; from Medieval Latin analȳticus, from Greek analȳtikós, from analy- ( analysis ) + -tikos -tic
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Word History and Origins

Origin of analytic1

C16: via Late Latin from Greek analutikos from analuein to dissolve, break down; see analysis
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Example Sentences

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In terms of conversions now everything should be actively connected to analytics.

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There are three distinct ways of committing music: the Analytic, Photographic, and Muscular.

Analytic and synthetic propositions at once throw light upon the notion of a category.

Analytic remark has been bestowed on those poems only which really cannot dispense with it in the eyes of most men.

It might even be argued that every proposition is Analytic to the man who utters it and Synthetic to the man who receives it.

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