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analysis Definition

analy·sis (ə nal′ə sis)

noun pl. -·ses′-sēz′

    1. 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.
    2. any detailed examination
  2. a statement of the results of this process
  3. psychoanalysis
  4. Linguis. the use of word order and uninflected function words rather than inflection to express syntactic relationships
  5. Math. a branch of mathematics, including calculus, that deals with functions and limits and their generalizations
  6. systems analysis

Etymology: ML < Gr, a dissolving < ana-, up, throughout + lysis, a loosing < lyein, to loose: see lose

analysis Idioms

in the last analysis

or in the final analysis

after all factors have been considered

analysis Synonyms

analysis

n.

  1. The process of logical division

    separation, breakdown, dissection, subdivision; see division 1.

  2. Examination

    study, investigation, inquiry, interpretation; see examination 1, judgment 2.

  3. A statement employing analysis, sense 1 or 2

    outline, report, commentary, critique; see exposition 2, review 2, summary.

  4. Psychoanalysis

    psychotherapy, depth psychiatry, dream analysis; see psychoanalysis.

in the last<strong> or </strong>final analysis<strong>

lastly, everything considered, in conclusion; see finally 2.

analysis Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • datum: These questions will be repeated in future surveys allowing analysis of the consolidated data set at a later date.
  • variance: Advanced statistical techniques including regression, analysis of variance, multivariate analysis of variance and factor analysis.
  • sample: Analysis of 2,600 samples in Taiwan showed that 24 % were adulterated with at least one synthetic medicines.

Converse of object

  • undertake: For this reason the study has undertaken a marginal analysis based on the proposed L den indicator.
  • perform: In this course you will learn how to perform simple quantitative analyzes.
  • conduct: Most of the research in analysis conducted here at King's is related to the spectral theory of linear operators.

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.
  • detailed: Details OK - on to the more detailed analysis.
  • comparative: This strategy could allow a comparative analysis of metabolism regulation of both amino acids within the same organism.
  • critical: Special study modules will allow you to study a topic in depth and further develop your skills in critical analysis.
  • in-depth: The in-depth analysis has been carried out during the past few months.
  • quantitative: However, there is an even sharper color change which is used in quantitative analysis.

Modifies a noun

  • tool: Both training needs analysis tools provide fully automated 360° feedback options.
  • technique: The next step was to compare my control report with the client's version using some data analysis techniques.

Noun used with modifier

  • data: Dr. Stone returned to the UK in January 2001 to begin data analysis.
  • regression: Regression analysis was used to predict the.. ... .
  • sensitivity: This approach allowed quick, low cost sensitivity analysis to be undertaken to examine issues raised during the study.
  • discourse: If you wish to analyze stretches of language beyond the sentence, you will need to use what is called discourse analysis.
  • sequence: However, so far it has not been proven by sequence analysis that the cultured T cells truly represent the malignant cells.
  • DNA: Lorne Lonie Lorne is a scientist at the NOC working in DNA analyzes.
analysis Quotes

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.

—Nuttgens, Patrick

   Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them.It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

—Whitehead, Alfred North

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.

—Lynd, Robert

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.

—Planck, Max Karl Ernst

Marxism is, above all, a method of analysis.

—Trotsky, Leon originally Lev Davidovich Bronstein