analysis

analysis
[[t]ənæ̱lɪsiːz[/t]]
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analyses
1) N-VAR Analysis is the process of considering something carefully or using statistical methods in order to understand it or explain it.

Her criteria defy analysis...

We did an analysis of the way that government money has been spent in the past.

2) N-VAR Analysis is the scientific process of examining something in order to find out what it consists of.

They collect blood samples for analysis at a national laboratory...

Jacobsen based his conclusion on an analysis of the decay of samarium-147 into neodymium-143.

3) N-COUNT An analysis is an explanation or description that results from considering something carefully.

The census provides a considerable amount of detail in its analysis of internal movement in France.

4) PHRASE: PHR with cl You use the expression in the final analysis or in the last analysis to indicate that the statement you are making is the most important or basic aspect of an issue.

I'm on the right track and I think in the final analysis people will understand that...

Violence in the last analysis produces more violence.

Syn:
in the end

English dictionary. 2008.

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  • analysis — a‧nal‧y‧sis [əˈnælss] noun analyses PLURALFORM [ siːz] [countable, uncountable] 1. a careful examination of something in order to understand it better: • The researchers carried out a detailed analysis of recent trends in share prices. •… …   Financial and business terms

  • Analysis — (from Greek ἀνάλυσις , a breaking up ) is the process of breaking a complex topic or substance into smaller parts to gain a better understanding of it. The technique has been applied in the study of mathematics and logic since before Aristotle,… …   Wikipedia

  • Analysis — • The process by which anything complex is resolved into simple, or at least less complex parts or elements Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Analysis     Analysis      …   Catholic encyclopedia

  • Analysis — Analysis, der Teil der Mathematik, der alle Untersuchungen über die (positiven und negativen, ganzen und gebrochenen, rationalen und irrationalen, algebraischen und transzendenten, reellen und komplexen, konstanten und veränderlichen) Zahlen… …   Lexikon der gesamten Technik

  • Analysis — Analysis, Auflösung, Zergliederung eines Ganzen in seine Theile, wie sie z.B. der Philosoph mit Begriffen, Urtheilen oder Systemen, der Chemiker mit einem zusammengesetzten Körper, der Grammatiker mit Wort und Satzformen vornimmt. – Die math.… …   Herders Conversations-Lexikon

  • analysis — (n.) 1580s, resolution of anything complex into simple elements (opposite of synthesis), from M.L. analysis (15c.), from Gk. analysis a breaking up, a loosening, releasing, noun of action from analyein unloose, release, set free; to loose a ship… …   Etymology dictionary

  • analysis — [ə nal′ə sis] n. pl. analyses [ə nal′əsēz΄] [ML < Gr, a dissolving < ana , up, throughout + lysis, a loosing < lyein, to loose: see LOSE] 1. a) a separating or breaking up of any whole into its parts, esp. with an examination of these… …   English World dictionary

  • Analysis — A*nal y*sis, n.; pl. {Analyses}. [Gr. ?, fr. ? to unloose, to dissolve, to resolve into its elements; ? up + ? to loose. See {Loose}.] 1. A resolution of anything, whether an object of the senses or of the intellect, into its constituent or… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • analysis — I noun ascertainment, assay, audit, canvassing, close inquiry, consideration, critical examination, critique, delineation, dissection, examination, exhaustive inquiry, explicatio, exploration, inquiry, investigation, perusal, probe, research,… …   Law dictionary

  • Analysis [1] — Analysis (Analyse, v. gr.), 1) Auflösung, Zerlegung in seine Theile, als Gegensatz der Synthesis; 2) Zergliederung organischer Körper in einzelne Theile, bes. von Pflanzen, auch von Thieren (hier Anatomie). 3) (Philos.), die Auflösung der… …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

  • analysis — [n1] examination and determination assay, breakdown, dissection, dissolution, division, inquiry, investigation, partition, reasoning, resolution, scrutiny, search, separation, study, subdivision, test; concepts 24,103 analysis [n2] statement of… …   New thesaurus

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