Analysis



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• n.分析
• ［英］ 分析 ( study of sth by examining its parts and their relationship)
• ［类］ 反义词: synthesis ( 综合)
• ［记］ ana+lysis ( 分开) -> 分开来 -> 分析

Webster Collegiate

noun (plural analyses)

• Etymology: New Latin, from Greek, from analyein to break up, from ana- + lyein to loosen — more at lose
• Date: 1581
• 1. separation of a whole into its component parts
• 2.
  • a. the identification or separation of ingredients of a substance
  • b. a statement of the constituents of a mixture
• 3.
  • a. proof of a mathematical proposition by assuming the result and deducing a valid statement by a series of reversible steps
  • b.
    • (1) a branch of mathematics concerned mainly with limits, continuity, and infinite series
    • (2) calculus 1b
• 4.
  • a. an examination of a complex, its elements, and their relations
  • b. a statement of such an analysis
• 5.
  • a. a method in philosophy of resolving complex expressions into simpler or more basic ones
  • b. clarification of an expression by an elucidation of its use in discourse
• 6. the use of function words instead of inflectional forms as a characteristic device of a language
• 7. psychoanalysis

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