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Analysis (PL: analyses) is the process of breaking a complex topic or substance into smaller parts in order to gain a better understanding of it. The technique has been applied in the study of mathematics and logic since before Aristotle (384–322 B.C.), though analysis as a formal concept is a relatively recent development.[1]
The word comes from the Ancient Greek ἀνάλυσις (analysis, «a breaking-up» or «an untying;» from ana- «up, throughout» and lysis «a loosening»).[2] From it also comes the word’s plural, analyses.
As a formal concept, the method has variously been ascribed to Alhazen,[3] René Descartes (Discourse on the Method), and Galileo Galilei. It has also been ascribed to Isaac Newton, in the form of a practical method of physical discovery (which he did not name).
The converse of analysis is synthesis: putting the pieces back together again in a new or different whole.
Applications[edit]
Science[edit]
A clinical chemistry analyzer
The field of chemistry uses analysis in three ways: to identify the components of a particular chemical compound (qualitative analysis),[4] to identify the proportions of components in a mixture (quantitative analysis),[5] and to break down chemical processes and examine chemical reactions between elements of matter.[6] For an example of its use, analysis of the concentration of elements is important in managing a nuclear reactor, so nuclear scientists will analyze neutron activation to develop discrete measurements within vast samples. A matrix can have a considerable effect on the way a chemical analysis is conducted and the quality of its results. Analysis can be done manually or with a device.
Types of Analysis:
A) Qualitative Analysis: It is concerned with which components are in a given sample or compound.
Example: Precipitation reaction
B) Quantitative Analysis: It is to determine the quantity of individual component present in a given sample or compound.
Example: To find concentration by uv-spectrophotometer.
Isotopes[edit]
Chemists can use isotope analysis to assist analysts with issues in anthropology, archeology, food chemistry, forensics, geology, and a host of other questions of physical science. Analysts can discern the origins of natural and man-made isotopes in the study of environmental radioactivity.
Business[edit]
- Financial statement analysis – the analysis of the accounts and the economic prospects of a firm
- Financial analysis – refers to an assessment of the viability, stability, and profitability of a business, sub-business or project
- Gap analysis – involves the comparison of actual performance with potential or desired performance of an organization
- Business analysis – involves identifying the needs and determining the solutions to business problems
- Price analysis – involves the breakdown of a price to a unit figure
- Market analysis – consists of suppliers and customers, and price is determined by the interaction of supply and demand
- Sum-of-the-parts analysis – method of valuation of a multi-divisional company
- Opportunity analysis – consists of customers trends within the industry, customer demand and experience determine purchasing behavior
Computer science[edit]
- Requirements analysis – encompasses those tasks that go into determining the needs or conditions to meet for a new or altered product, taking account of the possibly conflicting requirements of the various stakeholders, such as beneficiaries or users.
- Competitive analysis (online algorithm) – shows how online algorithms perform and demonstrates the power of randomization in algorithms
- Lexical analysis – the process of processing an input sequence of characters and producing as output a sequence of symbols
- Object-oriented analysis and design – à la Booch
- Program analysis (computer science) – the process of automatically analysing the behavior of computer programs
- Semantic analysis (computer science) – a pass by a compiler that adds semantical information to the parse tree and performs certain checks
- Static code analysis – the analysis of computer software that is performed without actually executing programs built from that
- Structured systems analysis and design methodology – à la Yourdon
- Syntax analysis – a process in compilers that recognizes the structure of programming languages, also known as parsing
- Worst-case execution time – determines the longest time that a piece of software can take to run
Economics[edit]
- Agroecosystem analysis
- Input–output model if applied to a region, is called Regional Impact Multiplier System
Engineering[edit]
Analysts in the field of engineering look at requirements, structures, mechanisms, systems and dimensions. Electrical engineers analyse systems in electronics. Life cycles and system failures are broken down and studied by engineers. It is also looking at different factors incorporated within the design.
Intelligence[edit]
The field of intelligence employs analysts to break down and understand a wide array of questions. Intelligence agencies may use heuristics, inductive and deductive reasoning, social network analysis, dynamic network analysis, link analysis, and brainstorming to sort through problems they face. Military intelligence may explore issues through the use of game theory, Red Teaming, and wargaming. Signals intelligence applies cryptanalysis and frequency analysis to break codes and ciphers. Business intelligence applies theories of competitive intelligence analysis and competitor analysis to resolve questions in the marketplace. Law enforcement intelligence applies a number of theories in crime analysis.
Linguistics[edit]
Linguistics explores individual languages and language in general. It breaks language down and analyses its component parts: theory, sounds and their meaning, utterance usage, word origins, the history of words, the meaning of words and word combinations, sentence construction, basic construction beyond the sentence level, stylistics, and conversation. It examines the above using statistics and modeling, and semantics. It analyses language in context of anthropology, biology, evolution, geography, history, neurology, psychology, and sociology. It also takes the applied approach, looking at individual language development and clinical issues.
Literature[edit]
Literary criticism is the analysis of literature. The focus can be as diverse as the analysis of Homer or Freud. While not all literary-critical methods are primarily analytical in nature, the main approach to the teaching of literature in the west since the mid-twentieth century, literary formal analysis or close reading, is. This method, rooted in the academic movement labelled The New Criticism, approaches texts – chiefly short poems such as sonnets, which by virtue of their small size and significant complexity lend themselves well to this type of analysis – as units of discourse that can be understood in themselves, without reference to biographical or historical frameworks. This method of analysis breaks up the text linguistically in a study of prosody (the formal analysis of meter) and phonic effects such as alliteration and rhyme, and cognitively in examination of the interplay of syntactic structures, figurative language, and other elements of the poem that work to produce its larger effects.
Mathematics[edit]
Modern mathematical analysis is the study of infinite processes. It is the branch of mathematics that includes calculus. It can be applied in the study of classical concepts of mathematics, such as real numbers, complex variables, trigonometric functions, and algorithms, or of non-classical concepts like constructivism, harmonics, infinity, and vectors.
Florian Cajori explains in A History of Mathematics (1893) the difference between modern and ancient mathematical analysis, as distinct from logical analysis, as follows:
The terms synthesis and analysis are used in mathematics in a more special sense than in logic. In ancient mathematics they had a different meaning from what they now have. The oldest definition of mathematical analysis as opposed to synthesis is that given in [appended to] Euclid, XIII. 5, which in all probability was framed by Eudoxus: «Analysis is the obtaining of the thing sought by assuming it and so reasoning up to an admitted truth; synthesis is the obtaining of the thing sought by reasoning up to the inference and proof of it.»
The analytic method is not conclusive, unless all operations involved in it are known to be reversible. To remove all doubt, the Greeks, as a rule, added to the analytic process a synthetic one, consisting of a reversion of all operations occurring in the analysis. Thus the aim of analysis was to aid in the discovery of synthetic proofs or solutions.
James Gow uses a similar argument as Cajori, with the following clarification, in his A Short History of Greek Mathematics (1884):
The synthetic proof proceeds by shewing that the proposed new truth involves certain admitted truths. An analytic proof begins by an assumption, upon which a synthetic reasoning is founded. The Greeks distinguished theoretic from problematic analysis. A theoretic analysis is of the following kind. To prove that A is B, assume first that A is B. If so, then, since B is C and C is D and D is E, therefore A is E. If this be known a falsity, A is not B. But if this be a known truth and all the intermediate propositions be convertible, then the reverse process, A is E, E is D, D is C, C is B, therefore A is B, constitutes a synthetic proof of the original theorem. Problematic analysis is applied in all cases where it is proposed to construct a figure which is assumed to satisfy a given condition. The problem is then converted into some theorem which is involved in the condition and which is proved synthetically, and the steps of this synthetic proof taken backwards are a synthetic solution of the problem.
Music[edit]
- Musical analysis – a process attempting to answer the question «How does this music work?»
- Musical Analysis is a study of how the composers use the notes together to compose music. Those studying music will find differences with each composer’s musical analysis, which differs depending on the culture and history of music studied. An analysis of music is meant to simplify the music for you.[7]
- Schenkerian analysis
- Schenkerian analysis is a collection of music analysis that focuses on the production of the graphic representation. This includes both analytical procedure as well as the notational style.[8] Simply put, it analyzes tonal music which includes all chords and tones within a composition.[7]
Philosophy[edit]
- Philosophical analysis – a general term for the techniques used by philosophers
- Philosophical analysis refers to the clarification and composition of words put together and the entailed meaning behind them.[9] Philosophical analysis dives deeper into the meaning of words and seeks to clarify that meaning by contrasting the various definitions. It is the study of reality, justification of claims, and the analysis of various concepts. Branches of philosophy include logic, justification, metaphysics, values and ethics. If questions can be answered empirically, meaning it can be answered by using the senses, then it is not considered philosophical. Non-philosophical questions also include events that happened in the past, or questions science or mathematics can answer.[9]
- Analysis is the name of a prominent journal in philosophy.
Psychotherapy[edit]
- Psychoanalysis – seeks to elucidate connections among unconscious components of patients’ mental processes
- Transactional analysis
- Transactional analysis is used by therapists to try to gain a better understanding of the unconscious. It focuses on understanding and intervening human behavior.[10]
Policy[edit]
- Policy analysis – The use of statistical data to predict the effects of policy decisions made by governments and agencies
- Policy analysis includes a systematic process to find the most efficient and effective option to address the current situation.[11]
- Qualitative analysis – The use of anecdotal evidence to predict the effects of policy decisions or, more generally, influence policy decisions
Signal processing[edit]
- Finite element analysis – a computer simulation technique used in engineering analysis
- Independent component analysis
- Link quality analysis – the analysis of signal quality
- Path quality analysis
- Fourier analysis
Statistics[edit]
In statistics, the term analysis may refer to any method used
for data analysis. Among the many such methods, some are:
- Analysis of variance (ANOVA) – a collection of statistical models and their associated procedures which compare means by splitting the overall observed variance into different parts
- Boolean analysis – a method to find deterministic dependencies between variables in a sample, mostly used in exploratory data analysis
- Cluster analysis – techniques for finding groups (called clusters), based on some measure of proximity or similarity
- Factor analysis – a method to construct models describing a data set of observed variables in terms of a smaller set of unobserved variables (called factors)
- Meta-analysis – combines the results of several studies that address a set of related research hypotheses
- Multivariate analysis – analysis of data involving several variables, such as by factor analysis, regression analysis, or principal component analysis
- Principal component analysis – transformation of a sample of correlated variables into uncorrelated variables (called principal components), mostly used in exploratory data analysis
- Regression analysis – techniques for analysing the relationships between several predictive variables and one or more outcomes in the data
- Scale analysis (statistics) – methods to analyse survey data by scoring responses on a numeric scale
- Sensitivity analysis – the study of how the variation in the output of a model depends on variations in the inputs
- Sequential analysis – evaluation of sampled data as it is collected, until the criterion of a stopping rule is met
- Spatial analysis – the study of entities using geometric or geographic properties
- Time-series analysis – methods that attempt to understand a sequence of data points spaced apart at uniform time intervals
Other[edit]
- Aura analysis – a technique in which supporters of the method claim that the body’s aura, or energy field is analysed
- Bowling analysis – Analysis of the performance of cricket players
- Lithic analysis – the analysis of stone tools using basic scientific techniques
- Lithic analysis is most often used by archeologists in determining which types of tools were used at a given time period pertaining to current artifacts discovered.[12]
- Protocol analysis – a means for extracting persons’ thoughts while they are performing a task
See also[edit]
- Formal analysis
- Metabolism in biology
- Methodology
- Scientific method
References[edit]
- ^ Beaney, Michael (Summer 2012). «Analysis». The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University. Retrieved 23 May 2012.
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2012). «analysis (n.)». Online Etymology Dictionary. Douglas Harper. Retrieved 23 May 2012.
- ^ O’Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., «Abu Ali al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham», MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews
- ^ «Qualitative Analysis» (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 9 October 2022.
- ^ OpenStaxCollege (2 October 2014). «Quantitative Chemical Analysis».
- ^ «CHEMICAL AND BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERING» (PDF). Spring 2018. Archived (PDF) from the original on 9 October 2022.
- ^ a b Warfield, Scott (November 2014). «Lady in the Dark: Biography of a Musical. By bruce d. mcclung. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. — Oklahoma!: The Making of an American Musical. By Tim Carter. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007. — South Pacific: Paradise Rewritten. By Jim Lovensheimer. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. — Wicked: A Musical Biography. By Paul R. Laird. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2011». Journal of the Society for American Music. 8 (4): 587–596. doi:10.1017/s1752196314000443. ISSN 1752-1963. S2CID 232401945.
- ^ Neumeyer, David (2018). «Guide to Schenkerian Analysis». doi:10.15781/T2D21S443.
- ^ a b Hospers, John (15 April 2013). An Introduction to Philosophical Analysis. doi:10.4324/9780203714454. ISBN 9780203714454.
- ^ Hargaden, Helena; Sills, Charlotte (23 April 2014). Transactional Analysis. doi:10.4324/9781315820279. ISBN 9781315820279.
- ^ «Dye, Dr Christopher», Who’s Who, Oxford University Press, 1 December 2012, doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.256626
- ^ McCall, Grant (March 2012). «In Memory of George H. Odell». Lithic Technology. 37 (1): 3–4. doi:10.1179/lit.2012.37.1.3. ISSN 0197-7261. S2CID 108647958.
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What do we mean by analysis?
The separation of an intellectual or material whole into its constituent parts for individual study. noun
The study of such constituent parts and their interrelationships in making up a whole. noun
A spoken or written presentation of such study. noun
The separation of a substance into its constituent elements to determine either their nature (qualitative analysis) or their proportions (quantitative analysis). noun
The stated findings of such a separation or determination. noun
A branch of mathematics principally involving differential and integral calculus, sequences, and series and concerned with limits and convergence. noun
The method of proof in which a known truth is sought as a consequence of a series of deductions from that which is the thing to be proved. noun
The use of function words such as prepositions, pronouns, or auxiliary verbs instead of inflectional endings to express a grammatical relationship; for example, the cover of the dictionary instead of the dictionary’s cover. noun
Psychoanalysis. noun
Systems analysis. noun
In cricket, an itemized record of the play of the bowler, intended to show particularly the number of runs scored by him and the number of wickets obtained. noun
In chem., intentionally produced decomposition: often applied to the ascertainment of the composition of a substance, whether the constituents are actually obtained in separate form or not. noun
The resolution or separation of anything which is compound, as a conception, a sentence, a material substance, or an event, into its constituent elements or into its causes; decomposition. noun
The regressive scientific method of discovery; research into causes; induction. noun
In mathematics: Originally, and still frequently, a regressive method, said to have been invented by Plato, which first assumes the conclusion and gradually leads back to the premises. noun
Algebraical reasoning, in which unknown quantities are operated upon in order to find their values. noun
The treatment of problems by a consideration of infinitesimals, or something equivalent, especially by the differential calculus (including the integral calculus, the calculus of variations, etc.): often called infinitesimal analysis. This is the common meaning of the word in modern times. noun
Decomposition into components in order to study (a complex thing, concept, theory etc.).
The result of such a process.
The mathematical study of functions, sequences, series, limits, derivatives and integrals.
Proof by deduction from known truths.
The process of breaking down a substance into its constituent parts, or the result of this process.
The analytical study of melodies, harmonies, sequences, repetitions, variations, quotations, juxtapositions, and surprises.
Psychoanalysis.
A special form of telekenesis that targets and inflicts pain to one’s anus. Urban Dictionary
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Analysis is the process of breaking a complex topic or substance into smaller parts.
It has nothing to do with a disease of the anal. Urban Dictionary
When someone gives an answer or makes an observation, of an object, event or situation that has happened or could happen, covered in very good detail. Urban Dictionary
A stupid assignment that teachers and profs will give to you in an attempt to make you smarter. Urban Dictionary
Adv. The act of being a douche
especially: The act of douche baggery that involves the invention of words. Urban Dictionary
High school calculus done right™️
As a well-established branch of pure mathematics, real analysis is known for being notoriously hard. This is due to hoardes of ill-prepared students not realizing that they’ve only studied baby mathematics previously. Urban Dictionary
When someone thinks about doing something so much that they actually end up doing nothing at all. All thought no action Urban Dictionary
When something doesn’t make sense, so you need to analyze it further and figure out wtf it means. Urban Dictionary
His analyses expose hidden fractures with the clarity of an X-ray, and his rhetorical skill, though modulated in a journalistic style, owes much to the give and take of Euripides’ crisp dialogue.
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G. W. Bowersock, New York Review of Books, 6 Nov. 2008
In order to depict economic decisions mathematically, economists needed to assume that human behavior is both rational and predictable. They imagined a representative human, Homo economicus, endowed with consistent preferences, stable moods, and an enviable ability to make only rational decisions. This sleight of hand yielded some theories that had genuine predictive value, but economists were obliged to exclude from their analyses many phenomena that didn’t fit the … framework, such as stock-market bubbles, drug addiction, and compulsive shopping.
—John Cassidy, New Yorker, 18 Sept. 2006
Thus little more than a month before the convention was due to assemble in Philadelphia, James Madison fashioned a powerful and comprehensive analysis of the problems of federalism and republicanism.
—Jack N. Rakove, Original Meanings, 1996
Thanks to some pioneering studies, and an increasing body of editions, translations, and detailed analyses, we now have a good general picture of the spiritual culture of late-medieval women on the Continent, especially in the Low Countries and Germany.
—Nicholas Watsons, Speculum, July 1993
a scientific analysis of the data
make a chemical analysis of the soil
a detailed analysis of the bone structure of horses
performing chemical analysis of the soil
The newspaper printed an analysis of each candidate’s positions.
That’s not a bad analysis of the situation.
It’s a problem that requires careful analysis.
He has been in analysis for many years.
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And during the same time frame, a Courier Journal analysis found that on average, third graders at just 22 of 90 JCPS elementary schools scored at or above the national average for reading.
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Princeton’s WordNetRate this definition:3.6 / 26 votes
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analysisnoun
an investigation of the component parts of a whole and their relations in making up the whole
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analysis, analytic thinkingnoun
the abstract separation of a whole into its constituent parts in order to study the parts and their relations
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analysisnoun
a form of literary criticism in which the structure of a piece of writing is analyzed
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analysisnoun
the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., `the father of the bride’ instead of `the bride’s father’
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analysisnoun
a branch of mathematics involving calculus and the theory of limits; sequences and series and integration and differentiation
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psychoanalysis, analysis, depth psychologynoun
a set of techniques for exploring underlying motives and a method of treating various mental disorders; based on the theories of Sigmund Freud
«his physician recommended psychoanalysis»
WiktionaryRate this definition:3.9 / 8 votes
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analysisnoun
A process of dismantling or separating into constituent elements in order to study the nature, function, or meaning.
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The result of such a process.
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analysisnoun
The mathematical study of functions, sequences, series, limits, derivatives and integrals.
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analysisnoun
Proof by deduction from known truths.
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analysisnoun
The process of breaking down a substance into its constituent parts, or the result of this process.
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Psychoanalysis.
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Etymology: From analysis, from ἀνάλυσις, from ἀναλύω, from ἀνά + λύω.
Samuel Johnson’s DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes
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Analysisnoun
Etymology: ἀνάλυσις.
1. A separation of a compound body into the several parts of which it consists.
There is an account of dew falling, in some places, in the form of butter, or grease, which grows extremely fetid; so that the analysis of the dew of any place, may, perhaps, be the best method of finding such contents of the soil as are within the reach of the sun.
Arbuthnot.2. A consideration of any thing in parts, so as that one particular is first considered, then another.
Analysis consists in making experiments and observations, and in drawing general conclusions from them by induction, and admitting of no objections against the conclusions, but such as are taken from experiments, or other certain truths.
Isaac Newton, Opticks.3. A solution of any thing, whether corporeal or mental, to its first elements; as, of a sentence to the single words; of a compound word, to the particles and words which form it; of a tune, to single notes; of an argument, to simple propositions.
We cannot know any thing of nature, but by an analysis of its true initial causes; till we know the first springs of natural motions, we are still but ignorants.
Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientif.
WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes
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Analysis
Analysis (PL: analyses) is the process of breaking a complex topic or substance into smaller parts in order to gain a better understanding of it. The technique has been applied in the study of mathematics and logic since before Aristotle (384–322 B.C.), though analysis as a formal concept is a relatively recent development.The word comes from the Ancient Greek ἀνάλυσις (analysis, «a breaking-up» or «an untying;» from ana- «up, throughout» and lysis «a loosening»). From it also comes the word’s plural, analyses.
As a formal concept, the method has variously been ascribed to Alhazen, René Descartes (Discourse on the Method), and Galileo Galilei. It has also been ascribed to Isaac Newton, in the form of a practical method of physical discovery (which he did not name).
The converse of analysis is synthesis: putting the pieces back together again in new or different whole.
Webster DictionaryRate this definition:1.0 / 1 vote
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Analysisnoun
a resolution of anything, whether an object of the senses or of the intellect, into its constituent or original elements; an examination of the component parts of a subject, each separately, as the words which compose a sentence, the tones of a tune, or the simple propositions which enter into an argument. It is opposed to synthesis
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Analysisnoun
the separation of a compound substance, by chemical processes, into its constituents, with a view to ascertain either (a) what elements it contains, or (b) how much of each element is present. The former is called qualitative, and the latter quantitative analysis
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Analysisnoun
the tracing of things to their source, and the resolving of knowledge into its original principles
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Analysisnoun
the resolving of problems by reducing the conditions that are in them to equations
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Analysisnoun
a syllabus, or table of the principal heads of a discourse, disposed in their natural order
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Analysisnoun
a brief, methodical illustration of the principles of a science. In this sense it is nearly synonymous with synopsis
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Analysisnoun
the process of ascertaining the name of a species, or its place in a system of classification, by means of an analytical table or key
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Etymology: [Gr. , fr. to unloose, to dissolve, to resolve into its elements; up + to loose. See Loose.]
FreebaseRate this definition:3.0 / 1 vote
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Analysis
Analysis is a peer-reviewed academic journal of philosophy established in 1933 that is published quarterly by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Analysis Trust. Prior to January 2009, the journal was published by Blackwell Publishing. Electronic access to this journal is available via JSTOR, Wiley InterScience, and Oxford Journals. The journal publishes short, concise articles in virtually any field of the analytic tradition.
Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes
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Analysis
an-al′is-is, n. a resolving or separating a thing into its elements or component parts—the tracing of things to their source, and so discovering the general principles underlying individual phenomena. Its converse is synthesis, the explanation of certain phenomena by means of principles which are for this purpose assumed as established. Analysis as the resolution of our experience into its original elements, is an artificial separation; while synthesis is an artificial reconstruction: (gram.) the arrangement into its logical and grammatical elements of a sentence or part of a sentence:—pl. Anal′yses.—adj. Analys′able.—n. Analysā′tion.—v.t. An′alyse, to resolve a whole into its elements: to separate into component parts.—n. An′alyst, one skilled in analysis, esp. chemical analysis.—adjs. Analyt′ic, -al, pertaining to analysis: resolving into first principles.—adv. Analyt′ically.—n.pl. Analyt′ics, the name given by Aristotle to his treatises on logic.—Analytical geometry, geometry treated by means of ordinary algebra, with a reference, direct or indirect, to a system of co-ordinates; Analytic method (logic) proceeds regressively or inductively to the recognition of general principles, as opposed to the Synthetic method, which advances from principles to particulars. [Gr. analysis, analy-ein, to unloose, ana, up, ly-ein, to loose.]
The Standard Electrical DictionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote
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Analysis
The determination of the elements of a case. It may be chemical, and consist in finding what a substance consists of; it may be mathematical, and consist in determining the unknown quantities in a problem; or it may belong to other branches of science. The term has a very extended application. Where the constituents are only determined in kind it is called qualitative analysis; where their quantity or percentage is ascertained it is called quantitative analysis.
Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes
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analysis
The resolution of anything into its constituent parts:
mathematically, it is the method of resolving problems by reducing them
to equations.—Analysis of curves is that which shows their
properties, points of inflection, station, variation, &c.—Analysis of
finite quantities is termed specious arithmetic or algebra.—Analysis
of infinites is a modern introduction, and used for fluxions or the
differential calculus.—Analysis of powers is the evolution or
resolving them into their roots.—Analysis of metals, fluids, solids,
earths, manures, &c.
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analysis
A detailed review of data or information to provide proof of cause, effect or fact.
They used analysis to determine the future goals of the business.
Submitted by MaryC on January 15, 2020
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Examples of analysis in a Sentence
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Dorian Daley:
We would have the opportunity again to put together a new damages analysis based on revenues that Google has enjoyed as a result of Android to date and that number would increase.
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Evan Esar:
Statistician A man who believes figures don’t lie, but admits that under analysis some of them won’t stand up either.
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Sylvestre Lacour:
Our analysis showed that HR 8799e has an atmosphere containing far more carbon monoxide than methane — something not expected from equilibrium chemistry, we can best explain this surprising result with high vertical winds within the atmosphere preventing the carbon monoxide from reacting with hydrogen to form methane.
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Lawrence Jones:
The show is a balance between news and analysis of what’s happening in the world.
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Dennis Williams:
I personally don’t have a problem with Harry, but that doesn’t mean I necessarily agreed with his total analysis of the company.
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Translations for analysis
From our Multilingual Translation Dictionary
- تحليل رياضي, تحليل مختبري, تحليلArabic
- разлагане, анализBulgarian
- বিশ্লেষণBengali
- anàlisiCatalan, Valencian
- analýza, rozborCzech
- analyseDanish
- Analyse, AnalysisGerman
- ανάλυσηGreek
- analizo, analitikoEsperanto
- análisisSpanish
- analüüsEstonian
- تحلیل و بررسیPersian
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[ uh—nal—uh-sis ]
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noun, plural a·nal·y·ses [uh—nal—uh-seez]. /əˈnæl əˌsiz/.
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.
a 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.Compare 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.Compare qualitative analysis, quantitative analysis.
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Origin of analysis
First recorded in 1575–85; from New Latin, from Greek, equivalent to analȳ́(ein) “to loosen up” (ana- “up, against, back” + lȳ́ein “to loosen”) + -sis noun suffix; see ana-, -sis
OTHER WORDS FROM analysis
mis·a·nal·y·sis, noun, plural mis·a·nal·y·ses.o·ver·a·nal·y·sis, noun, plural o·ver·a·nal·y·ses.re·a·nal·y·sis, noun, plural re·a·nal·y·ses.
Words nearby analysis
anal stage, anal vein, analysand, analyse, analyses, analysis, analysis of variance, analysis situs, analyst, analyt., analytic
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Words related to analysis
inquiry, investigation, reasoning, scrutiny, search, study, test, evaluation, finding, interpretation, judgment, opinion, report, summary, assay, breakdown, dissection, dissolution, division, partition
How to use analysis in a sentence
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Sediment analyses suggest ancient people reached the lake during a dry stretch when the region’s rivers and lakes were shrinking.
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The robot lives inside the silo and dives into its contents when it’s time to offer analysis.
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That rate charged is unusually high for a rental home in the area, according to an analysis of local real estate listings.
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O’Brien, appearing on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that Sunday, offered a starkly different public analysis than the one he had shared privately with the president just days earlier.
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For this analysis, we’ll study the ten highest-market-cap tech companies in the Nasdaq 100.
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Analysis of the 2014 vote showed that Democrats had been hurt by an abrupt drop in Latino turnout.
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Once successfully in, I can see my Hash 160 and Taint Analysis, among other things.
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Jeff Stier is Director of the Risk Analysis Division, of the National Center for Public Policy Research.
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“How the Faithful Voted: 2012 Preliminary Analysis,” at the Pew Forum.
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«It could be anything,» said Costin Raiu, director of Kaspersky Lab’s Global Research and Analysis Team.
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Analysis and practice in preparation are the steps over which we must climb to the platform of power.
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Recollective Analysis, or Analysis for the purpose of helping to learn by heart, is not an originating or manufacturing process.
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It is either thoughtless repetition, or thoughtful Analysis that he must use.
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At all events, let him if possible learn each of the three Groups by his own Analysis, looking at my work afterwards.
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Now the practice of Interrogative Analysis compels such persons to interrogate—to propose questions—to think.
British Dictionary definitions for analysis
noun plural -ses (-ˌsiːz)
the division of a physical or abstract whole into its constituent parts to examine or determine their relationship or valueCompare synthesis (def. 1)
a statement of the results of this
chem
- 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
linguistics the use of word order together with word function to express syntactic relations in a language, as opposed to the use of inflectionsCompare synthesis (def. 4)
maths the branch of mathematics principally concerned with the properties of functions, largely arising out of calculus
philosophy (in the writings of Kant) the separation of a concept from another that contains itCompare synthesis (def. 6a)
in the last analysis, in the final analysis or in the ultimate analysis after everything has been given due consideration
Word Origin for analysis
C16: from New Latin, from Greek analusis, literally: a dissolving, from analuein, from ana- + luein to loosen
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Scientific definitions for analysis
The separation of a substance into its constituent elements, usually by chemical means, for the study and identification of each component.♦ Qualitative analysis determines what substances are present in a compound.♦ Quantitative analysis determines how much of each substance is present in a compound.
A branch of mathematics concerned with limits and convergence and principally involving differential calculus, integral calculus, sequences, and series.
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