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an⋅a⋅lyt⋅ic
[an-l-it-ik]
–adjective
| 1. | pertaining to or proceeding by analysis (opposed to 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.
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an·a·lyt·ic (ān'ə-lĭt'ĭk) adj.
[Medieval Latin analyticus, from Greek analutikos, from analūein, to resolve; see analysis.] an'a·lyt'i·cal·ly adv. |
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