analytic
Pronunciation: /anəˈlɪtɪk/
adjective
- another term for analytical.
- Logic true by virtue of the meaning of the words or concepts used to express it, so that its denial would be a self-contradiction. Compare with synthetic.
- Linguistics (of a language, e.g. Chinese and English) tending not to alter the form of its words but to use word order to express grammatical structure. Contrasted with synthetic and agglutinative.
Origin:
early 17th century: via Latin from Greek analutikos, from analuein 'unloose'