analyse or (N American) analyze /anˈə-līz/ transitive verb- To resolve or separate a thing into its elements or component parts
- To ascertain those parts
- To trace a thing or things to the source or cause
- To discover the general principles underlying individual phenomena by doing this
- To resolve a sentence into its syntactic elements (grammar)
- To psychoanalyse
ORIGIN: Gr analȳein to unloose, from ana up, and lȳein to loose anˈalysable or (N American) anˈalyzable adjective anˈalyser or (N American) anˈalyzer noun - A person who analyses
- In a polariscope the nicol (or substitute) through which the polarized light passes
- A device that analyses
analysis /ə-nalˈə-sis or -i-sis/ noun (pl analˈyses /-sēz/)- The action or process of analysing
- A table or statement of the results of analysis
- The examination of market research data and information (commerce)
- Analytical chemistry
- Formerly, proof by assuming the result and reasoning back to principles, opp to synthesis (mathematics)
- Use of algebraical methods
- Psychoanalysis
ORIGIN: Gr analysis, from analȳein to unloose, from ana up, and lȳein to loose analysand /ən-alˈi-zand/ noun A person undergoing psychoanalysis anˈalyst /-list/ noun - Someone skilled in or practising analysis, esp chemical or economic
- A psychoanalyst
analysis situs /sītˈəs/ noun (mathematics) Older name for topology (mathematics meanings) in the final (or last) analysis When all inessentials are excluded from the problem or the situation |