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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024a•nal•y•sis /əˈnæləsɪs/USA pronunciation n., pl. -ses /-ˌsiz/.USA pronunciation - the process of analyzing: [uncountable]analysis of a problem.[countable]chemical analyses.
- a presentation of the results of this process:[countable]The newspaper article was a good analysis of the problem.
- Psychotherapy[uncountable]psychoanalysis.
See -lys-. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024a•nal•y•sis (ə nal′ə sis),USA pronunciation n., pl. -ses (-sēz′).USA pronunciation - the separating of any material or abstract entity into its constituent elements (opposed to synthesis).
- this process as a method of studying the nature of something or of determining its essential features and their relations:the grammatical analysis of a sentence.
- a presentation, usually in writing, of the results of this process:The paper published an analysis of the political situation.
- Philosophya philosophical method of exhibiting complex concepts or propositions as compounds or functions of more basic ones.
- Mathematics
- an investigation based on the properties of numbers.
- the discussion of a problem by algebra, as opposed to geometry.
- the branch of mathematics consisting of calculus and its higher developments.
- a system of calculation, as combinatorial analysis or vector analysis.
- a method of proving a proposition by assuming the result and working backward to something that is known to be true. Cf. synthesis (def. 4).
- Chemistry
- intentionally produced decomposition or separation of materials into their ingredients or elements, as to find their kind or quantity.
- the ascertainment of the kind or amount of one or more of the constituents of materials, whether obtained in separate form or not. Cf. qualitative analysis, quantitative analysis.
- Psychotherapypsychoanalysis.
- ComputingSee systems analysis.
- Greek, equivalent. to analý̄(ein) to loosen up (ana- ana- + lý̄ein to loosen) + -sis -sis
- Neo-Latin
- 1575–85
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: analysis /əˈnælɪsɪs/ n ( pl -ses / -ˌsiːz/)- the division of a physical or abstract whole into its constituent parts to examine or determine their relationship or value
- a statement of the results of this
- short for psychoanalysis
- the decomposition of a substance into its elements, radicals, or other constituents in order to determine the kinds of constituents present (qualitative analysis) or the amount of each constituent (quantitative analysis)
- the result obtained by such a determination
- the use of word order together with word function to express syntactic relations in a language, as opposed to the use of inflections
- the branch of mathematics principally concerned with the properties of functions, largely arising out of calculus
- in the last analysis, in the final analysis, in the ultimate analysis ⇒ after everything has been given due consideration
Etymology: 16th Century: from New Latin, from Greek analusis, literally: a dissolving, from analuein, from ana- + luein to loosen |