analytic
/ˌænəˈlɪtɪk/adjective
1- another term for ANALYTICAL.
1.1
- 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【逻】逻辑必然的。比较SYNTHETIC.
1.2
- Linguistics (of a language) tending not to alter the form of its words but to use word order to express grammatical structure. Chinese and English are examples of analytic languages【语言学】(语言)分析性的。与SYNTHETIC和AGGLUTINATIVE相对。
词源
early 17th cent.: via Latin from Greek analutikos, from analuein 'unloose'. The term was adopted in the late 16th cent. as a noun denoting the branch of logic dealing with analysis, with specific reference to Aristotle's treatises on logic, the Analytics (Greek analutika).