another term for analytical 同 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 (逻)逻辑必然的。 比较 synthetic ■(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
语源
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)