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analytically

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an·a·lyt·ic  (n-ltk) or an·a·lyt·i·cal (--kl)
adj.
1. Of or relating to analysis or analytics.
2. Dividing into elemental parts or basic principles.
3. 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).
4. Expert in or using analysis, especially in thinking: an analytic mind; an analytic approach. See Synonyms at logical.
5. Logic Following necessarily; tautologous: an analytic truth.
6. Mathematics
a. Using, subjected to, or capable of being subjected to a methodology involving algebra or other methods of mathematical analysis.
b. Proving a known truth by reasoning from that which is to be proved.
7. Linguistics Expressing a grammatical category by using two or more words instead of an inflected form.
8. Psychoanalytic.

[Medieval Latin analyticus, from Greek analutikos, from analein, to resolve; see analysis.]

ana·lyti·cal·ly adv.
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Adv.1.analytically - by virtue of analysis; "assuming that the distinction is maintained one may ask which is to be analytically prior?"
Translations
analytically [ˌænəˈlɪtɪkli] adv [think, question] → d'une manière analytique
analytically
advanalytisch
analytically [ˌænəˈlɪtɪklɪ] advanaliticamente


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