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Of or pertaining to analysis; resolving into elements or constituent parts; as, an analytical experiment; analytic reasoning; -- opposed to synthetic. Analytical or coördinate geometry. See under Geometry. -- Analytic language, a noninflectional language or one not characterized by grammatical endings. -- Analytical…

the purpose of an examination of each separately; to examine in such a manner as to ascertain the elements or nature of the thing examined; as, to analyze a fossil substance; to analyze a sentence or a word; to analyze an action to ascertain its morality. No one, I presume, can analyze the sensations of pleasure or pa…

Of or pertaining to Anam, to southeastern Asia. -- n.

or representation of an image on a plane or curved surface, which, when viewed from a certain point, or as reflected from a curved mirror or through a polyhedron, appears regular and in proportion; a deformation of an image.

Containing no angle. [R.]

Pertaining to an anapest; consisting of an anapests; as, an anapestic meter, foot, verse. -- n.

Of or pertaining to anaplasty.

Pertaining to anarchy; without rule or government; in political confusion; tending to produce anarchy; as, anarchic despotism; anarchical opinions.

Having no jointed legs; pertaining to Anarthropoda.

A genus of water fowls, of the order Anseres, including certain species of fresh-water ducks.

Pertaining to a process or a style of printing from characters in relief on zinc plates.

Of or pertaining to anastomosis.

Pertaining to, or having the nature of, an anathema. -- A*nath`e*mat"ic*al*ly, adv.

Of or pertaining to the ducks; ducklike.

Of, pertaining to, derived from, or possessed by, an ancestor or ancestors; as, an ancestral estate. "Ancestral trees." Hemans.

n), and which, being cast overboard, lays hold of the earth by a fluke or hook and thus retains the ship in a particular station.

A detail of one or more men who keep watch on deck at night when a vessel is at anchor.

Pertaining to an anchoret or hermit; after the manner of an anchoret.

A resinoid coloring matter obtained from alkanet root.

Of or pertaining to anchylosis.