analyze

Definitions

1. To subject to analysis.
   US, transitive
2. vt. analizar, hacer análisis.
3. To resolve (anything complex) into its elements.
   US, transitive
4. To examine methodically by separating into parts and studying their interrelations.
5. To separate into the constituent parts, for the purpose of an examination of each separately.
   US, transitive
6. Chemistry To make a chemical analysis of.
   Chemistry
7. To examine in such a manner as to ascertain the elements or nature of the thing examined; as, to analyze a fossil substance, to analyze a sentence or a word, or to analyze an action to ascertain its morality.
   US, transitive
8. Mathematics To make a mathematical analysis of.
   Mathematics
9. To psychoanalyze.
10. to separate (a material or abstract entity) into constituent parts or elements; determine the elements or essential features of (opposed to synthesize).
11. to examine critically, so as to bring out the essential elements or give the essence of: to analyze a poem.
12. to examine carefully and in detail so as to identify causes, key factors, possible results, etc.: to analyze a situation.
13. to subject to mathematical, chemical, grammatical, etc., analysis.
14. psychoanalyze.

Equivalents

Examples

“This section addresses the recent homeless backlash by reviewing and analyzing antihomeless legislation[…]”

“The clearest lesson is that the F.D.A. needs the power to demand⟳ adequate postmarketing studies and the resources to analyze the results.”

“The phase structure⟳ of the fabricated nanophosphor samples was analyzed by using an X-ray diffractometer (XRD; Mac Science, M18XHF-SRA) with Cu Kα ( λ = 1.5402 Å) radiation, and the JADE software was applied to analyze the XRD data.”

“When sensors record⟳ a gunlike noise in, say⟳, Cape Town or Chicago, software analyzes it for the sonic signatures of gunfire, and within seconds Beisner and his team listen⟳ to those audio files and look⟳ at those recorded waveforms at their office in Newark, Calif.”

“analyze a problem”

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