analytic

English

/ˌænəˈlɪtɪk/

adj
Definitions
  • Of, or relating to any form of analysis, or to analytics.
  • Of, or relating to division into elements or principles.
  • Having the ability to analyse.
  • (logic) that follows necessarily; tautologous.
  • (mathematics) Of, or relating to algebra or a similar method of analysis.
  • (analysis) Being defined in terms of objects of differential calculus such as derivatives.
  • (complex analysis) Holomorphic; complex-differentiable.
  • (linguistics) Of a language, having a grammar principally dependent on the arrangement of uninflected words within sentences to indicate meaning. Compare synthetic.

Etymology

Derived from Ancient Greek ἀναλυτικός.

Origin

Ancient Greek

ἀναλυτικός

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