adj.
- Of or relating to analysis or analytics.
- Dividing into elemental parts or basic principles.
- Reasoning or acting from a perception of the parts and interrelations of a subject: "Many of the most serious pianists have turned toward more analytic playing, with a renewed focus on the architecture and ideas of music" (Annalyn Swan).
- Expert in or using analysis, especially in thinking: an analytic mind; an analytic approach. See synonyms at logical.
- Logic. Following necessarily; tautologous: an analytic truth.
- Mathematics.
- Using, subjected to, or capable of being subjected to a methodology involving algebra or other methods of mathematical analysis.
- Proving a known truth by reasoning from that which is to be proved.
- Linguistics. Expressing a grammatical category by using two or more words instead of an inflected form.
- Psychoanalytic.
[Medieval Latin analyticus, from Greek analutikos, from analūein, to resolve. See analysis.]
analytically an'a·lyt'i·cal·ly adv.
