<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>the separating of any material or abstract entity into its constituent elements (synthesis).</li><li>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.</li><li>a presentation, usually in writing, of the results of this process: The paper published an analysis of the political situation.</li><li>a philosophical method of exhibiting complex concepts or propositions as compounds or functions of more basic ones.</li><li>Mathematics: an investigation based on the properties of numbers.</li><li>the discussion of a problem by algebra, as opposed to geometry.</li><li>the branch of mathematics consisting of calculus and its higher developments.</li><li>a system of calculation, as combinatorial analysis or vector analysis.</li><li>a method of proving a proposition by assuming the result and working backward to something that is known to be true.</li><li>Chemistry: intentionally produced decomposition or separation of materials into their ingredients or elements, as to find their kind or quantity.</li><li>the ascertainment of the kind or amount of one or more of the constituents of materials, whether obtained in separate form or not.</li><li>Compare qualitative analysis, quantitative analysis.</li><li>psychoanalysis.</li><li>Computers: systems analysis.</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>