analysis
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analysis /əˈnalɪsɪs/
▶noun (pl. analyses /-siːz/)
- 1 a detailed examination of something in order to interpret or explain it.
- 2 the process of separating something into its constituent elements. Often contrasted with synthesis.
■ the process of analysing the chemical constituents of a substance.
- 3 short for psychoanalysis.
- 4 Mathematics the part of mathematics concerned with the theory of functions and the use of limits, continuity, and the operations of calculus.
– origin C16: via med. L. from Gk analusis, from analuein ‘unloose’.
'analysis' also found in these Oxford entries:
aliquot
- analyse
- analyst
- analytical
- analytical philosophy
- ANOVA
- archaeology
- ash
- atomism
- bibliometrics
- bin
- biometry
- breakdown
- citizen journalism
- cliometrics
- cluster
- computational linguistics
- cost–benefit
- critical
- critique
- data
- deconstruction
- equivocal
- factor analysis
- Feldenkrais method
- fine-tooth comb
- form criticism
- Freudian
- genetic fingerprinting
- historical
- identify
- logical positivism
- macroscopic
- mathematical
- metalanguage
- microanalysis
- numerical analysis
- operational research
- polarography
- post-mortem
- post-structuralism
- potentiometry
- profiling
- qualitative analysis
- quantitative analysis
- Raman effect
- reagent
- reanalyse
- resolve
