analytically

analytically

English

Etymology

    From analytical + -ly.

    Pronunciation

    • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌæn.əˈlɪt.ɪ.kli/, /ˌæn.əˈlɪt.ɪ.kə.li/
    • (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /ˌæn.əˈlɪt.ɪ.kli/, [ˌæn.əˈlɪɾ.ɪ.kli], [ˌɛən.əˈlɪɾ.ɪ.kli]
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    • (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˌæn.əˈlɪt.ɪ.kli/, [ˌæn.əˈlɪɾ.ɪ.kli]

    Adverb

    analytically (comparative more analytically, superlative most analytically)

    1. In an analytical manner.
      • 1999 11, Robert J. Sampson, Stephen W. Raudenbush, “Systematic Social Observation of Public Spaces: A New Look at Disorder in Urban Neighborhoods”, in American Journal of Sociology, volume 105, number 3, page 637:
        Put differently, the active ingredients in crime seem to be structural disadvantage and attenuated collective efficacy more so than disorder. Attacking public disorder through tough policing may thus be a politically popular but perhaps analytically weak strategy to reduce crime, mainly because such a strategy leaves the common origins of both [] untouched.

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