analysis
a
–ses' (-sez')
[[ML < Gr, a dissolving < ana-, up, throughout + lysis, a loosing < lyein, to loose: see LOSE ]]
1
a) a separating or breaking up of any whole into its parts, esp. with an examination of these parts to find out their nature, proportion, function, interrelationship, etc.
b) any detailed examination
2 a statement of the results of this process
3 PSY
4 Linguis. the use of word order and uninflected function words rather than inflection to express syntactic relationships
5 Math. a branch of mathematics, including calculus, that deals with functions and limits and their generalizations
6 SYSTEM ANALYSIS
–in the last ( or final) analysis after all factors have been considered
