analysis


Definition: Meaning of, analysis in English to English dictionary.

Pronunciation: / əˈnalɪsɪs /

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analysis analyses
  1. [uncountable and countable] a careful examination of something in order to understand it better
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  2. [uncountable and countable] the way in which someone describes a situation or problem, and says what causes it to happen
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  3. [uncountable and countable] a careful examination of a substance to see what it is made of
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  4. [uncountable] a process in which a doctor makes someone talk about their past experiences, relationships etc in order to help them with mental or emotional problems [↪  therapy] [=  psychoanalysis]
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  5. in the final/last analysis used when giving the most basic or important facts about a situation
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analysis used in phrases

  • Fourier analysis (noun)
    1. analysis of a periodic function into a sum of simple sinusoidal components
  • Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System (noun)
    1. relational database of the United States National Library of Medicine for the storage and retrieval of bibliographical information concerning the biomedical literature
  • Research and Analysis Wing (noun)
    1. india's external intelligence agency
  • analysis of variance (noun)
    1. statistics a statistical method for making simultaneous comparisons between two or more means; a statistical method that yields values that can be tested to determine whether a significant relation exists between variables
  • analysis situs (noun)
    1. mathematics the branch of pure mathematics that deals only with the properties of a figure X that hold for every figure into which X can be transformed with a one-to-one correspondence that is continuous in both directions
  • chemical analysis (noun)
    1. the act of decomposing a substance into its constituent elements
  • cladistic analysis (noun)
    1. assumed a system of biological taxonomy based on the quantitative analysis of comparative data and used to reconstruct cladograms summarizing the phylogenetic relations and evolutionary history of groups of organisms
  • colorimetric analysis (noun)
    1. quantitative chemical analysis by colour using a colorimeter
  • correlational analysis (noun)
    1. statistics the use of statistical correlation to evaluate the strength of the relations between variables
  • cost analysis (noun)
    1. breaking down the costs of some operation and reporting on each factor separately
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