Analysis

an-al′is-is, n. a resolving or separating a thing into its elements or component parts—the tracing of things to their source, and so discovering the general principles underlying individual phenomena. Its converse is synthesis , the explanation of certain phenomena by means of principles which are for this purpose a umed as established. Analysis as the resolution of our experience into its original elements, is an artificial separation; while synthesis is an artificial reconstruction: ( gram. ) the arrangement into its logical and grammatical elements of a sentence or part of a sentence:— pl. Anal′yses .— adj. Analys′able .— n. Analysā′tion .— v.t. An′alyse , to resolve a whole into its elements: to separate into component parts.— n. An′alyst , one skilled in analysis, esp. chemical analysis.— adjs. Analyt′ic , -al , pertaining to analysis: resolving into first principles.— adv. Analyt′ically .— n.pl. Analyt′ics , the name given by Aristotle to his treatises on logic.— Analytical geometry , geometry treated by means of ordinary algebra, with a reference, direct or indirect, to a system of co-ordinates; Analytic method ( logic ) proceeds regre ively or inductively to the recognition of general principles, as opposed to the Synthetic method, which advances from principles to particulars. [Gr. analysis , analy-ein , to unloose, ana , up, ly-ein , to loose.]