ALL meanings of mis-analysis
MIS-a·nal·y·sis
M m - noun plural mis-analysis the separating of any material or abstract entity into its constituent elements (opposed to synthesis). 1
- noun plural mis-analysis 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 mis-analysis a presentation, usually in writing, of the results of this process: The paper published an analysis of the political situation. 1
- noun plural mis-analysis a philosophical method of exhibiting complex concepts or propositions as compounds or functions of more basic ones. 1
- noun plural mis-analysis 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 mis-analysis 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 plural mis-analysis psychoanalysis. 1
- noun plural mis-analysis Computers. systems analysis. 1