Analysis
Analysis, analytical
- analysis =
- detailed examination, especially pf underlying elements, structures and conditions
- separation of or breaking down something into its parts
- turning a complex thing or system into simple elements or parts
- analyze = to examine in detail, break into parts, etc.
- analytical = in the state of analysis
- from:
- PIE *leu for "to loosen, divide, cut apart" and *an- for "up, back, throughout, against, again"
- thus the Greek analusis, meaning, "divided up"
- related words:
- analogy
- = a comparison, or correspondence (relating) things or elements
- particulary to offer an explanation or clarficiation
- "let me offer you an analogy of that idea..."
- analogical -ly
- = expressing or in the state of an analogy
- "speaking analogically, this wind today is a beast in the jungle"
- analogy
- opposite of analysis is synthesis (bringing together)
- * todo synthesis, evaluation << todo