analysis

See also: Analysis

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin analysis, from Ancient Greek ἀνάλυσις (análusis), from ἀναλύω (analúō, “I unravel, investigate”), from ἀνα- (ana-, “thoroughly”) + λύω (lúō, “I loosen”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈnælɪsɪs/, /əˈnæləsɪs/

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: anal‧y‧sis
• (Hong Kong) IPA^(key): /æˈnɑ.lə.sɪs/

Noun

analysis (countable and uncountable, plural analyses)

1. (countable) Decomposition into components in order to study (a complex thing, concept, theory etc.).

   comparative analysis

   • 2013 July-August, Philip J. Bushnell, “Solvents, Ethanol, Car Crashes & Tolerance”, in American Scientist:

     Surprisingly, this analysis revealed that acute exposure to solvent vapors at concentrations below those associated with long-term effects appears to increase the risk of a fatal automobile accident. Furthermore, this increase in risk is comparable to the risk of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene, another solvent, which has the well-known property of causing this type of cancer.

   • 2023 March 8, Gareth Dennis, “The Reshaping of things to come...”, in RAIL, number 978, page 48:

     Beeching is more disparaging about suburban services beyond the capital, and I think here lies one of the most critical shortcomings in his analysis. By not considering the potential for these cities to grow, both on their own merits and in response to London's limitations, he failed to future-proof these types of service, limiting them in favour of long-distance services.

2. (countable) The result of such a process.
   • 1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 214:

     Thus, in a sequence such as [French English teacher], since English is closer to
     the Head Noun teacher, it must be a Complement; and since French is further
     away from teacher, it must be an Attribute. Hence, we correctly predict that
     the only possible interpretation for [a French English teacher] is ‘a person who
     teaches English who is Frenchʼ. So our analysis not only has semantic plausi-
     bility; but in addition it has independent syntactic support.

3. (uncountable, mathematics) A broad field of study in modern mathematics (often mentioned alongside algebra) which developed out of the calculus, concerned with the behavior of functions, sequences, series, limits, metric spaces, measures and more.

   Synonym: mathematical analysis

   • 2014, Lara Alcock, How to Think about Analysis, Oxford University Press:
4. (countable, logic) Proof by deduction from known truths.
5. (countable, analytical chemistry, physical chemistry) The process of breaking down a substance into its constituent parts, or the result of this process.
6. (uncountable, music) The analytical study of melodies, harmonies, sequences, repetitions, variations, quotations, juxtapositions, and surprises.
7. (countable, psychology) Psychoanalysis.

Antonyms

• synthesis

Hyponyms

• cryptanalysis
• psychoanalysis

Derived terms

• abstract harmonic analysis
• activation analysis
• algebraic analysis
• amortized analysis
• analysis of algorithms
• analysis of variance
• analysis paralysis
• analysis situs
• analysist
• asymptotic analysis
• aura analysis
• autoanalysis
• bioanalysis
• bowling analysis
• chemical analysis
• cluster analysis
• cluter analysis
• coanalysis
• competitive analysis
• complex analysis
• computable analysis
• computer program analysis
• conceptual analysis
• conformational analysis
• conversation analysis
• cost benefit analysis
• cost-benefit analysis
• cost-benefot analysis
• coverage analysis
• cryptanalysis
• cryptoanalysis
• cytoanalysis
• data analysis
• dialogical analysis
• differential thermal analysis
• dimensional analysis
• discourse analysis
• discrete choice analysis
• eigenanalysis
• electroanalysis
• factor analysis
• fall-off analysis
• fingerprint analysis
• finite element analysis
• Fourier analysis
• Fourier stability analysis
• frequency analysis
• functional analysis
• fundamental analysis
• fundamentals analysis
• geometric analysis
• glycoanalysis
• gravimetric analysis
• harmonic analysis
• hypnoanalysis
• immunoanalysis
• independent components analysis
• infinitesimal analysis
• in the final analysis
• in the last analysis
• isotope analysis
• language analysis for the determination of origin
• lexical analysis
• life cycle cost analysis
• link quality analysis
• lithic analysis
• logical analysis
• macroanalysis
• marginal analysis
• mathematical analysis
• mesh analysis
• mesoanalysis
• meta-analysis
• metanalysis
• microanalysis
• misanalysis
• mixanalysis
• musical analysis
• nanoanalysis
• narcoanalysis
• neuroanalysis
• neutron activation analysis
• nodal analysis
• node-voltage analysis
• nonstandard analysis
• northern blot analysis
• Northern blot analysis
• numerical analysis
• object-oriented analysis and design
• operational analysis
• overanalysis
• paralysis by analysis
• path quality analysis
• postanalysis
• preanalysis
• principal components analysis
• protoanalysis
• psychoanalysis
• qualitative analysis
• quantitative analysis
• radioanalysis
• real analysis
• reanalysis
• retroanalysis
• Schenkerian analysis
• schizoanalysis
• self-analysis
• semantic analysis
• sentiment analysis
• sequential analysis
• Southern blot analysis
• spectral analysis
• static code analysis
• statistical analysis
• steganalysis
• stratoanalysis
• structured analysis
• subanalysis
• surface analysis
• syntax analysis
• system analysis
• systems analysis
• technical analysis
• teleoanalysis
• thermal analysis
• thermoanalysis
• time-domain analysis
• time-frequency analysis
• time-series analysis
• topoanalysis
• transactional analysis
• underanalysis
• uranalysis
• urinalysis
• use-wear analysis
• voice analysis
• volumetric analysis
• von Neumann stability analysis
• Western blot analysis
• western blot analysis

 

Related terms

• analyse, analyze
• analyst
• analyte
• analytic

Translations

decomposition into components in order to study

• Albanian: analizë (sq) f
• Arabic: تَحْلِيل (ar) m (taḥlīl)
• Armenian: վերլուծություն (hy) (verlucutʻyun)
• Azerbaijani: analiz (az), təhlil (az)
• Belarusian: ана́ліз m (análiz), дасле́даванне n (dasljédavannje), разбо́р m (razbór)
• Bengali: বিশ্লেষণ (bn) (bisleśon)
• Bulgarian: ана́лиз (bg) m (análiz)
• Catalan: anàlisi (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 分析 (fan¹ sik¹)

  Hokkien: 分析 (zh-min-nan) (hun-sek)

  Mandarin: 分析 (zh) (fēnxī)

• Crimean Tatar: talil, analiz
• Czech: analýza (cs) f, rozbor (cs) m
• Danish: analyse (da) c
• Dutch: analyse (nl) f, ontleding (nl) f
• Esperanto: analizo (eo), analizado
• Estonian: analüüs
• Finnish: analyysi (fi), erittely (fi)
• French: analyse (fr) f
• Galician: análise (gl) f
• Georgian: ანალიზი (ka) (analizi)
• German: Analyse (de) f
• Greek: ανάλυση (el) f (análysi)
• Hebrew: ניתוח \ נִתּוּחַ (he) m (nitúakh)
• Hindi: विश्लेषण (hi) m (viśleṣaṇ)
• Hungarian: elemzés (hu), analízis (hu)
• Icelandic: greining f
• Indonesian: analisis (id)
• Irish: anailís, anailísiú m
• Italian: analisi (it) f
• Japanese: 分析 (ja) (ぶんせき, bunseki)
• Kazakh: талдау (kk) (taldau), анализ (analiz), саралау (saralau)
• Khmer: វិភាគ (km) (viphiək), វិកប្ប (km) (vikap)
• Korean: 분석(分析) (ko) (bunseok)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: شیکاری (şîkarî), تاوتوێکاری (tawtwêkarî)

• Kyrgyz: талдоо (ky) (taldoo), анализ (ky) (analiz)
• Lao: ການວິເຄາະ (lo) (kān wi khǫ)
• Latin: analysis f
• Latvian: analīze f
• Lithuanian: analizė (lt) f
• Macedonian: анали́за f (analíza)
• Malay: analisis, cerakin
• Manx: bun-ronsaghey
• Maori: tātarihanga
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: задлал (mn) (zadlal)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: analyse (no) m

  Nynorsk: analyse m

• Occitan: analisi (oc) f
• Pashto: تحليل (ps) m (tahlīl), تجزيه (ps) f (tajziya)
• Persian: تحلیل (fa) (tahlil), تجزیه (fa) (tajziye)
• Polish: analiza (pl) f
• Portuguese: análise (pt) f
• Romanian: analiză (ro) f
• Russian: ана́лиз (ru) m (análiz), иссле́дование (ru) n (isslédovanije), разбо́р (ru) m (razbór)
• Sanskrit: विश्लेषण (sa) n (viśleṣaṇa)
• Scottish Gaelic: mion-rannsachadh m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: анали́за f

  Roman: analíza (sh) f

• Slovak: analýza f, rozbor m
• Slovene: analiza f
• Spanish: análisis (es) m
• Swedish: analys (sv) c
• Tagalog: suri, pagsusuri (tl)
• Tajik: таҳлил (tg) (tahlil), таҷзия (tg) (tajziya), анализ (analiz)
• Tamil: பகுப்பாய்வு (ta) (pakuppāyvu)
• Telugu: విశ్లేషణ (te) (viślēṣaṇa)
• Thai: การวิเคราะห์ (th) (gaan-wí-krɔ́)
• Turkish: analiz (tr), tahlil (tr), çözümleme (tr)
• Turkmen: derňew, analiz (tk)
• Ukrainian: ана́ліз (uk) m (análiz), дослі́дження (uk) n (doslídžennja), ро́збір m (rózbir), розбі́р m (rozbír)
• Urdu: تحلیل (tahlīl), تجزیہ (tajziyā)
• Uyghur: تەھلىل (tehlil), ئانالىز (analiz)
• Uzbek: analiz (uz), tahlil (uz)
• Vietnamese: phân tích (vi) (分析)
• Welsh: dadansoddiad m

result of such process

• Esperanto: analizo (eo)
• Finnish: analyysi (fi), erittely (fi), eritelmä
• German: Analyse (de) f
• Polish: analiza (pl) f
• Spanish: análisis (es) m

in mathematics

• Arabic: تَحْلِيل رِيَاضِيّ m (taḥlīl riyāḍiyy)
• Belarusian: ана́ліз m (análiz), разбо́р m (razbór)
• Bulgarian: ана́лиз (bg) m (análiz)
• Catalan: anàlisi matemàtica f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 分析 (zh) (fēnxī), 解析學／解析学 (zh) (jiěxīxué)

• Crimean Tatar: talil, analiz
• Czech: analýza (cs) f
• Danish: analyse (da) c
• Dutch: analyse (nl) f
• Esperanto: analitiko (eo)
• Estonian: analüüs
• Finnish: analyysi (fi)
• French: analyse (fr) f
• Galician: análise (gl) f
• German: Analysis (de) f
• Greek: ανάλυση (el) f (análysi)
• Hungarian: analízis (hu)
• Icelandic: stærðfræðigreining f, stærðfræðileg greining f, greining f
• Italian: analisi (it) f
• Japanese: 解析学 (ja) (かいせきがく, kaisekigaku)
• Korean: 해석학(解析學) (haeseokhak)
• Lithuanian: analizė (lt) f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: analyse (no) m

• Polish: analiza (pl) f
• Portuguese: análise (pt) f
• Romanian: analiză (ro) f
• Russian: ана́лиз (ru) m (análiz), разбо́р (ru) m (razbór)
• Scottish Gaelic: mion-rannsachadh m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: анали́за f

  Roman: analíza (sh) f

• Spanish: análisis (es) m
• Swedish: analys (sv) c
• Tagalog: suri
• Turkish: analiz (tr)
• Ukrainian: ана́ліз (uk) m (análiz), ро́збір m (rózbir), розбі́р m (rozbír)

logic: proof by deduction from known truths

• Albanian: analizë (sq) f
• Belarusian: ана́ліз m (análiz)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 解析 (zh) (jiěxī)

• Finnish: analyysi (fi), looginen analyysi
• Japanese: 解析 (ja) (かいせき, kaiseki) (method), 分析判断 (ぶんせきはんだん, bunseki-handan) (philosophical analysis)
• Korean: 해석(解析) (ko) (haeseok)
• Polish: analiza (pl) f
• Romanian: analiză (ro) f
• Russian: ана́лиз (ru) m (análiz)
• Scottish Gaelic: mion-rannsachadh m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: анали́за f

  Roman: analíza (sh) f

• Tagalog: suri
• Turkish: analiz (tr)
• Ukrainian: ана́ліз (uk) m (análiz)

chemistry: process of breaking down a substance or the result of this process

• Arabic: تَحْلِيلْ مُخْتَبَرِيّ m (taḥlīl muḵtabariyy)
• Belarusian: ана́ліз m (análiz), расклада́нне n (raskladánnje), разлажэ́нне n (razlažénnje)
• Bulgarian: разла́гане (bg) n (razlágane)
• Catalan: anàlisi (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 分析 (zh) (fēnxī)

• Crimean Tatar: talil, analiz
• Czech: rozbor (cs) m, analýza (cs) f
• Danish: analyse (da) c
• Dutch: analyse (nl) f
• Finnish: analyysi (fi)
• French: analyse (fr)
• Galician: análise (gl) f
• German: Analyse (de) f
• Greek: ανάλυση (el) f (análysi)
• Italian: analisi (it)
• Japanese: 分析 (ja) (ぶんせき, bunseki)
• Korean: 분석(分析) (ko) (bunseok)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: analyse (no) m

• Persian: تجزیه (fa) (tajziye)
• Polish: analiza (pl) f
• Portuguese: análise (pt) f
• Romanian: analiză (ro) f
• Russian: ана́лиз (ru) m (análiz), разложе́ние (ru) n (razložénije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: анали́за f

  Roman: analíza (sh) f

• Spanish: análisis (es)
• Swedish: analys (sv) c
• Telugu: విశ్లేషణము (viślēṣaṇamu)
• Turkish: analiz (tr)
• Ukrainian: ана́ліз (uk) m (análiz), розклада́ння n (rozkladánnja)
• Welsh: dadansoddiad m

analytical study of music

• Finnish: analyysi (fi), musiikkianalyysi

psychoanalysis — see psychoanalysis

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Translations to be checked

• Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} analyse

See also

• List of terms used in mathematical analysis

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀνάλυσις (análusis), from ἀναλύω (analúō, “I unravel, investigate”), from ἀνά (aná, “on, up”) + λύω (lúō, “I loosen”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /aˈna.ly.sis/, [äˈnälʲʏs̠ɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈna.li.sis/, [äˈnäːlis̬is]

Noun

analysis f (genitive analysis or analyseōs or analysios); third declension

1. (Medieval Latin, mathematics) analysis

Declension

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, i-stem, i-stem).

	singular	plural
nominative	analysis	analysēs analyseis
genitive	analysis analyseōs analysios	analysium
dative	analysī	analysibus
accusative	analysim analysin analysem1	analysēs analysīs
ablative	analysī analyse1	analysibus
vocative	analysis analysi	analysēs analyseis

¹Found sometimes in Medieval and New Latin.

Descendants

• Catalan: anàlisi
• Danish: analyse
• Dutch: analyse
• English: analysis
• French: analyse
  • Romanian: analiză
• German: Analyse
• Indonesian: analisis
• Irish: anailís
• Italian: analisi
• Norwegian Bokmål: analyse
• Occitan: analisi
• Portuguese: análise
• Russian: ана́лиз m (análiz)
• Swedish: analys
• Spanish: análisis m
  • Tagalog: análisís