analytic

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Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀναλυτικός (analutikós).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌænəˈlɪtɪk/
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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.
    analytic method
    analytic geometry
    analytic skills
    She applied an analytic approach to the problem.
    The course covered analytic philosophy in detail.
  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.
    Coordinate term: synthetic
    • 2021 October 5, Gessica Puccini, “Lang Belta: the Belter language from SYFY/Amazon’s The Expanse”, in Lingoblog‎[1], archived from the original on 20 May 2026:
      As for syntax and morphology, the Belter Creole can be categorized as an analytic or isolating language as it uses a high quantity of particles and does not show cases of morphological inflection.

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Noun

analytic (plural analytics)

  1. (social sciences) A proposed role for each of a society's components.
    • 2010, Brian Silverstein, Islam and Modernity in Turkey, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 2:
      It is tempting to take the case of Islamic traditions as instances of such a counterpublic and generalize this into an analytic of Islamic traditions and modernity tout court.

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