analytic

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Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
15
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ˌænəˈlɪtɪk/
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/ˌænəˈlɪtɪk/ · /əˈnalɪʈɪk/

Definition of analytic

8 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  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.”
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adj

  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. that follows necessarily by definition; tautologous.
  5. Of, or relating to algebra or a similar method of analysis.
  6. Being defined in terms of objects of differential calculus such as derivatives.
  7. Being able to be locally represented by convergent power series around every point of the domain.
  8. Of a language, having a grammar principally dependent on the arrangement of uninflected function words within sentences to indicate meaning.
    “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.”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀναλυτικός (analutikós).

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