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analy·sis (ə nal′ə sis)
noun pl. analyses -·ses′ (-sēz′)
- a separating or breaking up of any whole into its parts, esp. with an examination of these parts to find out their nature, proportion, function, interrelationship, etc.
- any detailed examination
- a statement of the results of this process
- psychoanalysis
- Linguis. the use of word order and uninflected function words rather than inflection to express syntactic relationships
- Math. a branch of mathematics, including calculus, that deals with functions and limits and their generalizations
- systems analysis
Etymology: ML < Gr, a dissolving < ana-, up, throughout + lysis, a loosing < lyein, to loose: see lose
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Alternate definitions:
analysis
n.
The process of logical division
separation, breakdown, dissection, subdivision; see division 1.Examination
study, investigation, inquiry, interpretation; see examination 1, judgment 2.A statement employing analysis, sense 1 or 2
outline, report, commentary, critique; see exposition 2, review 2, summary.Psychoanalysis
psychotherapy, depth psychiatry, dream analysis; see psychoanalysis.
in the last<strong> or </strong>final analysis<strong>
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Preposition: of
- datum: These questions will be repeated in future surveys allowing analysis of the consolidated data set at a later date.
Converse of object
- undertake: For this reason the study has undertaken a marginal analysis based on the proposed L den indicator.
Adjective modifier
- statistical: Views or opinions based on general knowledge or belief should be clearly distinguished from views or opinions derived from the statistical analyzes being reported.
Modifies a noun
- tool: Both training needs analysis tools provide fully automated 360° feedback options.
Noun used with modifier
- data: Dr. Stone returned to the UK in January 2001 to begin data analysis.
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The cardinal tenets of feminism divided my generation, effectively disempowering and disenfranchising its members. It does make me bitterlyangry that my generation, which prided itself so complacently on its soul, on its powers of intelligence and analysis, should have fallen so cloddishly for totalitarian simplicities which declared a war of eternal opposition between men and women.
In the final analysis, all architecture reveals the application of human ingenuity to the satisfaction of human needs. And among these needs are not only shelter, warmth and accommodation, but also the needs, felt at every moment in every part of the world in endlessly different ways, for something more profound, evocative and universal, for beauty, for permanence, for immortality.
Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are part of nature and therefore part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.
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