analysis has definitions from the fields of medicine,psychology,psychoanalysis,mathematics,writing,rhetoric
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[ noun ] an investigation of the component parts of a whole and their relations in making up the whole

Used in print

(Frank Oppenheimer, "Science and Fear-- A Discussion...)

But a somewhat more detailed analysis of this process may be illuminating .

(Handbook of Federal Aids to Communities. U.S. Dep...)

The_Office_of_Business_Economics ( OBE ) of the U.S._Department_of_Commerce provides basic measures of the national economy and current analysis of short-run changes in the economic situation and business outlook .

(James A. Ibers et al., "Proton magnetic resonance...)

Differential thermal analysis showed a very small endothermic_reaction at 340 ` C and a large endothermic_reaction at 470 ` C .

Thermogravimetric analysis showed a weight loss of 1.8 % centered at 337 ` C and another weight loss of 10.8 % at 463 ` C .

Mass_spectrometric analysis of gases evolved upon heating to 410 ` C indicated nitrogen_oxides and water_vapor .

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[ noun ] (psychology) the abstract separation of a whole into its constituent parts in order to study the parts and their relations

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(Brainard Cheney, "Christianity and the Tragic Vision-Ut...)

It is a weakness of Gabriel 's analysis that he never seems to realize that his so-called fundamental_law had already been cut loose from its foundations when it was adapted to democracy .

(Ralph B. Long. The Sentence and Its Parts: A...)

From the point_of_view of syntactic analysis the head word in the statement is the predicator has broken , and from the point_of_view of meaning it would seem that the trouble centers in the breaking ; but dominant stress will be assigned to broken only in rather exceptional versions of the sentence .

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[ noun ] (writing) a form of literary criticism in which the structure of a piece of writing is analyzed

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(Brand Blanshard, "The Emotive Theory," Robert...)

The theory claims to show by analysis that when we say , `` That is good '' , we do not mean to assert a character of the subject of which we are thinking .

Related terms

criticism

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[ noun ] (mathematics) a branch of mathematics involving calculus and the theory of limits; sequences and series and integration and differentiation

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calculus Fourier_analysis

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[ noun ] (rhetoric) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., "the father of the bride" instead of "the bride's father"

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expressive_style

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[ noun ] (medicine,psychology,psychoanalysis) a set of techniques for exploring underlying motives and a method of treating various mental disorders; based on the theories of Sigmund Freud

Examples

"his physician recommended psychoanalysis"

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