1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Analytic

ANALYTIC (the adjective of “analysis,” q.v.), according with, or consisting in, the method of separating a whole into its parts, the opposite of synthetic. For analytic chemistry, analytic language, &c., see the articles under the noun-headings. The title of ἀναλυτικά or Analytics was given by Aristotle to his treatises on logic.