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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.  Antonym: synthesis.
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



... desires, even the meanest and basest of them, because every desire, whether of soul or body, is the expression of something that exists in the animating principle. Take, for example, the case of physical passion. That, in its ultimate analysis, is the instinct for propagating life, the transmission and continuance of vitality. The reason must not ignore or deplore it, but direct it into the proper channels; it may indicate the dangers that it ...
— Escape and Other Essays • Arthur Christopher Benson
... congratulated him on having "created a new shudder"; and as has been said, "this side of his genius attracted most popular attention, which, however, is but one side, and not really the most remarkable, of a singular combination of morbid but delicate analysis and reproduction of the remotest phases and moods of human thought ...
— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood
... Oh, my dear young friends of either sex, whatever your feelings be for one another, keep them to yourselves; I know of nothing half so hazardous as that "comparing of notes" which sometimes happens. Analysis is a beautiful thing in mathematics or chemistry, but it makes sad havoc when applied to the "functions of ...
— The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete • Charles James Lever (1806-1872)
... changes in the conditions of labour are possible than those I have suggested I am beginning to suspect that scarcely any of our preconceptions about the way work must be done, about the hours of work and the habits of work, will stand an exhaustive scientific analysis. It is at least conceivable that we could get much of the work that has to be done to keep our community going in far more toil-saving and life-saving ways than we follow at the present time. So far scientific ...
— An Englishman Looks at the World • H. G. Wells
... introspection, this exultancy grew suddenly dim. How about himself? Yes. Here was a question that would bear some close inspection. Was it really the wish to capture a supposable burglar? He made short work of this analysis. He never lied to others—not even in his work, which every one knows is endowed with special licenses in regard to truth—nor did he ever play the futile, if soothing, game of lying to himself. This girl was different from the ordinary run of girls; she might become dangerous. ...
— A Splendid Hazard • Harold MacGrath


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