| anal | a form of literary criticism in which the structure of a piece of writing is analyzed |
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| anal | the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., "the father of the bride" instead of"the bride's father" |
| anal | a statistical method for making simultaneous comparisons between two or more means |
| anal | the branch of pure mathematics that deals only with the properties of a figure X that hold for every figure into which X can be transformed with a one-to-one correspondence |
| anal | a licensed practitioner of psychoanalysis |
| anal | someone who is skilled at analyzing data |
| anal | an expert who studies financial data (on credit or securities or sales or financial patterns etc.) and recommends appropriate business actions |
| anal | (logic) of a proposition |
| anal | (linguistics) expressing a grammatical category by using two or more words rather than inflection |
| anal | using or skilled in using analysis (i.e., separating a whole--intellectual or substantial--into its elemental parts or basic principles) |
| anal | (mathematics) using or subjected to a methodology using algebra and calculus |
| anal | the use of algebra to study geometric properties |