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Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀναλυτικός (analutikós).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌænəˈlɪtɪk/, (Indic) /əˈnalɪʈɪk/
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  • Rhymes: -ɪtɪk

Adjective

analytic (comparative more analytic, superlative most analytic)

  1. Of, or relating to any form of analysis, or to analytics.
  2. Of, or relating to division into elements or principles.
  3. Having the ability to analyse.
  4. (logic, of a proposition) that follows necessarily by definition; tautologous.
  5. (mathematics) Of, or relating to algebra or a similar method of analysis.
  6. (mathematical analysis) Being defined in terms of objects of differential calculus such as derivatives.
  7. (mathematics, of a function) Being able to be locally represented by convergent power series around every point of the domain.
  8. (linguistics) Of a language, having a grammar principally dependent on the arrangement of uninflected function words within sentences to indicate meaning. Compare synthetic.

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