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Analysis   /ənˈæləsəs/  /ənˈælɪsɪs/   Listen
Analysis

noun
(pl. analyses)
1.
An investigation of the component parts of a whole and their relations in making up the whole.
2.
The abstract separation of a whole into its constituent parts in order to study the parts and their relations.  Synonym: analytic thinking.
3.
A form of literary criticism in which the structure of a piece of writing is analyzed.
4.
The use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., 'the father of the bride' instead of 'the bride's father'.
5.
A branch of mathematics involving calculus and the theory of limits; sequences and series and integration and differentiation.
6.
A set of techniques for exploring underlying motives and a method of treating various mental disorders; based on the theories of Sigmund Freud.  Synonyms: depth psychology, psychoanalysis.



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"Analysis" Quotes from Famous Books



... the studies of Spencer, Wade, and Fitch began. Much effort was expended in obtaining and dating scars for analysis, and the interesting results mentioned above were the reward. Also many porcupines were captured alive and marked with ear-tags so that they could be recognized later. For example, in the winter of 1946 and 1947, 117 were marked in Soda Canyon. A decline in numbers in recent years reduced the impetus ...
— Mammals of Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado • Sydney Anderson

... hands of thousands, learned and unlearned, and of which there are scores of thousands waiting to hear. Our duty we consider to be four-fold: first, that of recognition in terms of fitting courtesy; secondly, of analysis for the general reader; thirdly, of accentuation, so to speak, of what seems most widely applicable or interesting; and lastly, of making such comments as so pregnant a ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. I., No. 3, January 1858 - A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics • Various

... this key which seems for a time to unlock the gates of heaven and of hell? It is the most complicated drug in the pharmacopoeia. Though apparently nothing more than a simple black, slimy paste, analysis reveals the fact that it contains no less than five-and-twenty elements, each one of them a compound by itself, and many of them among the most complex compounds known to modern chemistry. This "dread agent of unimaginable pleasure and pain," this author of an ...
— In the Footprints of the Padres • Charles Warren Stoddard

... A superficial analysis of this remark will convince the most sceptical that Mr. Reardon, with true Hibernian adroitness, had managed to convey an insult without seeming ...
— Cappy Ricks Retires • Peter B. Kyne

... that the motive of this willing acceptance of the limitations and weaknesses of humanity is, in the deepest analysis, simply His love to us; as the mediaeval hymn has it, ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture - St. John Chapters I to XIV • Alexander Maclaren


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