analysis
IPA: ʌnˈæɫʌsʌs
noun
- (countable) Decomposition into components in order to study (a complex thing, concept, theory etc.).
- (countable) The result of such a process.
- (uncountable, mathematics) A broad field of study in modern mathematics (often mentioned alongside algebra) which developed out of the calculus, concerned with the behavior of functions, sequences, series, limits, metric spaces, measures and more.
- (countable, logic) Proof by deduction from known truths.
- (countable, chemistry) The process of breaking down a substance into its constituent parts, or the result of this process.
- (uncountable, music) The analytical study of melodies, harmonies, sequences, repetitions, variations, quotations, juxtapositions, and surprises.
- (countable, psychology) Psychoanalysis.
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Examples of "analysis" in Sentences
- Cost benefit analysis is code for cheaper when dead. nt
- = -- It is not in the above sense, however, that the term analysis is to be applied in the learning process.
- MSNBC (shameless as they are) get embarrassed by continuing to trot out Chris Tingles up my leg Matthews to offer up political analysisand believe me, I use the term analysis very loosely in this sense.
- Understanding conceptions of analysis is not simply a matter of attending to the use of the word ˜analysis™ and its cognates ” or obvious equivalents in languages other than English, such as ˜analusis™ in Greek or
- At what point does MSNBC (shameless as they are) get embarrassed by continuing to trot out Chris Tingles up my leg Matthews to offer up political analysisand believe me, I use the term analysis very loosely in this sense.
- Even so, the medical conclusions have been supported by forensic experts (see Asia Times Online, Berg beheading: No way, say medical experts, and at crimelibrary. com, Bloodstain analysis from the video of Nick Berg's murder).
- You can see the change in a Google Trends chart of web searches and news references for the term analysis of the #OWS Twitter hashtag thanks to my colleague Dan Fletcher shows a rise over the past month, spiking ahead of the Zuccotti police action.
- That is essentially analytical: the breaking down of the whole into its component parts. “… the word analysis itself… comes from a Greek root meaning subdivide” Wildavsky, 1979:8.33 It is analysis, therefore, that is the basis for strategic planning.
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