Meaning of “analysis” in the English Dictionary

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"analysis" in English

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uk /əˈnæl.ə.sɪs/ us /əˈnæl.ə.sɪs/ plural analyses uk /-siːz/ us

B2 the act of analysing something:

Chemical analysis revealed a high content of copper.

I was interested in Clare's analysis of (= examination of and judgment about) the situation.

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Sophisticated statistical analysis was employed to obtain these results.
This book is designed to be provocative rather than a watertight piece of economic analysis.
The documentary's analysis of the issues was very superficial.
A pattern is beginning to emerge from our analysis of the accident data.
They took blood and urine specimens for analysis.

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(Definition of “analysis” from the Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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(Definition of “analysis” from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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uk /əˈnæləsɪs/ us plural analyses /əˈnæləsiːz/

› the study of something in detail:

carry out/perform/conduct an analysis We carried out an analysis of visitors to the website by age, sex, and region.

scientific/chemical analysis Chemical analysis revealed a high content of copper.

detailed/comprehensive/in-depth analysis The data can be fed to a computer for detailed analysis.

statistical/structural/numerical analysis

› someone's opinion, based on the knowledge and information they have, of what a situation is and what it means:

I was interested in Clare's analysis of the quarterly sales figures.

What's your analysis of the current economic crisis?

in the last/final analysis

› after everything has been considered:

In the final analysis, you've got to have some kind of criteria for assessing people.