ALL meanings of analyses
an·a·lyse
A a - verb with object analyses to separate (a material or abstract entity) into constituent parts or elements; determine the elements or essential features of (opposed to synthesize): to analyze an argument. 1
- verb with object analyses to examine critically, so as to bring out the essential elements or give the essence of: to analyze a poem. 1
- verb with object analyses to examine carefully and in detail so as to identify causes, key factors, possible results, etc. 1
- verb with object analyses to subject to mathematical, chemical, grammatical, etc., analysis. 1
- verb with object analyses to psychoanalyze: a patient who has been analyzed by two therapists. 1
- noun plural analyses the separating of any material or abstract entity into its constituent elements (opposed to synthesis). 1
- noun plural analyses this process as a method of studying the nature of something or of determining its essential features and their relations: the grammatical analysis of a sentence. 1
- noun plural analyses a presentation, usually in writing, of the results of this process: The paper published an analysis of the political situation. 1
- noun plural analyses a philosophical method of exhibiting complex concepts or propositions as compounds or functions of more basic ones. 1
- noun plural analyses Mathematics. an investigation based on the properties of numbers. the discussion of a problem by algebra, as opposed to geometry. the branch of mathematics consisting of calculus and its higher developments. a system of calculation, as combinatorial analysis or vector analysis. a method of proving a proposition by assuming the result and working backward to something that is known to be true. Compare synthesis (def 4). 1
- noun plural analyses Chemistry. intentionally produced decomposition or separation of materials into their ingredients or elements, as to find their kind or quantity. the ascertainment of the kind or amount of one or more of the constituents of materials, whether obtained in separate form or not. Compare qualitative analysis, quantitative analysis. 1
- noun analyses Plural form of analysis. 1
- noun plural analyses psychoanalysis. 1
- noun plural analyses Computers. systems analysis. 1
- noun analyses plural of analysis. 0
- verb analyses third-person singular simple present indicative form of analyse. 0