Word that means analysis

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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]

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]

External links[edit]

• Analysis at the Indiana Philosophy Ontology Project
• «Analysis» entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Analysis at PhilPapers

As we know it, the English language has multiple words that we typically use in our day-to-day lives. Some words have similar meanings, and we do not use them as often. In this article, we will present two of those words and how they are similar and different at the same time.

Analyzation is the result of analyzing something or the action of analyzing it. An analysis is an action of studying something difficult to understand. They are both synonyms, but the use of analyzation is less attractive than analysis.

Analyzation Vs. Analysis, Definitions

Analyzation is the action of analysis. The result of the analysis is as a proper meaning of the word. It is an unpopular variant of the word analysis.

It could have multiple definitions like the following:

• To understand something by separating its parts and examining its details.
• In chemistry is to make a chemical study of some component.
• In mathematics is to create a mathematical review of an operation.

As a summary, we can establish that the word Analyzation is the noun of the verb analysis.

The analysis is to review the details of something hard to understand to make sense of it. The study is to create a process to find a solution to a situation that is complex.

By analyzing, we try to see the components or the parts of something separately. Having smaller components to understand will make it easier to make sense of the combination of those pieces.

Origin Of The Word Analyzation

The word Analyzation has been part of the English language since before the 18th century and is regularly from (as we will explain later) the verb analyze. It is less popular than its more familiar synonym analysis.

The word Analyzation comes from the combination of a word and a suffix. A suffix is a group of letters added to the end of another term to form a derivative.

The goal of a suffix is to create another term that may or may not have a different meaning.

The combined word that begins Analyzation is «analyze,» and the suffix is «ation.»

Analyze as a term has its origins from the Ancient Greek ἀνάλυσις, which translate to «breaking-up» or «an untangling.» From ana- «throughout» and lyses- «a loosening.» The plural of the word comes from it as well, analyses.

«Ation» as a suffix is used to transform a verb into a noun. This suffix can mean the following: An action or a process of the verb with the suffix added.

Another meaning of the suffix is the result of an action or process.

Lastly, it could also mean a state or quality of the verb with the suffix added. The transformation of the verb to a noun by adding the suffix «ation» means that the word Analyzation refers to analyzing something.

By receiving the category of noun, the word analyzation can serve as the subject of a verb, meaning that it could be the subject of its original version analysis.

Why Do We Use One Or The Other?

Analyzation as a word can be the result of an analysis. The relationship between the two words means that one does not mean that you can’t use the other one in the same sentence. When we are referring to a state of analysis, we can use the word Analyzation. Or, when we refer to the result of the investigation, we can use the noun.

Knowing that both terms are not different gives us the clear notion that using the two of them in the same sentence will not be appropriate.

What we need to be clear about is the fact that grammatically speaking, they can work well together. Still, it is clear that in a normal conversation, that could be hard to understand.

How Do People Use It?

Even though it is correct to use both words, Analyzation is not a word that we usually hear in a conversation. When people want to refer to the action or the result of an analysis, they use a passive voice instead. For example, instead of saying, «we need to send this sample for analysis,» they will say, «we need to send this sample to be analyzed.»

Synonyms

Every language has different ways to say the same thing. Words or phrases that have the same as others or similar meanings. This section will present other words and phrases that hold identical meanings as the word Analysis.

• Inquiry. It means the intention to look for information and knowledge. An investigation can also be a question that seeks an answer.
• Investigation. It means the search for information. It has the same structure as Analyzation with the suffix «ation,» this means that it can also be the act or process to investigate.
• Reasoning. It means to form conclusions and to create a judgment about anything in particular.
• Scrutiny. It means to look closer at something to understand it. It can also mean examining something to make a clear idea of it.
• Search. It means to look for something, in this case, knowledge or information. It is to try and find something so that, after seeing it, we can entirely understand it.
• Study. It is the use of the brain to acquire information or knowledge. It can also mean accumulating data from a particular branch of learning, science, or art.
• Test. It means to try something to get the whole meaning of something. It can also mean to see if the quality of something is good or bad.
• Assessment. It means to create an evaluation of something. It can also mean the act of trying to appreciate something.

Antonyms

Just as it is common to hear words that essentially mean the same thing, some words are the opposite in meaning to another. The name for this is an antonym. Next, we will present a list of words that mean the opposite to the phrase Analysis.

• Connection. It is the bond of multiple things. It can be considered the state of someone or something.
• Juncture. It is the union of two points. It is joining as an act. An item by which two things get bound.
• Unification. It is the process of unifying. It is the state or condition of union.
• Unity. It is the state of being one. Unity is the combination of multiple things into one and only one.
• Whole. It is putting together the fullness of something without exceptions.

Examples Of Both Words

In this section, we will present multiple sentences that will serve as examples of the use of both words.

• The system has also allowed for data collection and Analyzation.
• She wore a t-shirt, and they sent it to forensics for Analyzation.
• We do not know why there is a new logo, but you can read an analyzation of the logo change below.
• The creation of books like Gone Girl, Big Little Lies, and Sharp Objects has led to pop culture obsessions, analyzations, and endless dissections.
• After doing an analysis, he made the decision not to do the course.
• By analyzing an element, we know the atomic weight.
• To arrive at further conclusions will only be possible if the analysis needs to be more profound.
• Regression analysis is a tool that we use to predict the result.
• The atomic weight of the element is part of the information in the Analyzation.
• In the Analyzation you can see that there are no such differences.
• The investigator left the analysis of the consolidated data for a later date.
• DR. X returned to the country to begin the Analyzation.
• You will learn how to perform simple analysis in an analysis course.
• The Analyzation conducted by Lonei Lorne is one of the many elements in his book.
• A keen analysis and interpretation of the facts are what you can find in these articles.
• The next period Analyzation is Kathy’s work.
• The argument Michael made has a complete analysis to support it.
• His analysis is compelling in many ways.
• The way the government spends money is part of the Analyzation we are presenting today.
• His analysis of the situation can be disregarded.
• It is our mission as HR to make a deep analysis of every member of the organization.
• The Analyzation of the formula shows every component that forms part of it.
• The process of developing a new project includes a comprehensive analysis of the risks that are involved in it.

Conclusion

As we can conclude, the English language has a vast number of words that you can use in many ways.

Analyzation Vs. The analysis is just one of the cases where the English language shows its ability to transform and mold how we speak and write.

The explanation of the word gives us the conclusion that confirms what we use to start the introduction. These two words are similar and different at the same time.