analysis | an investigation of the component parts of a whole and their relations in making up the whole |
market analysis | marketing research that yields information about the marketplace |
chemical analysis qualitative analysis | the act of decomposing a substance into its constituent elements |
quantitative analysis quantitative chemical analysis | chemical analysis to determine the amounts of each element in the substance |
colorimetry colorimetric analysis | quantitative chemical analysis by color using a colorimeter |
volumetric analysis | quantitative analysis by the use of definite volumes of standard solutions or reagents |
volumetric analysis | determination of the volume of gases (or changes in their volume) during combination |
gravimetric analysis | quantitative analysis by weight |
cost analysis | breaking down the costs of some operation and reporting on each factor separately |
fundamental analysis fundamentals analysis | (stock exchange) the use of fundamentals as an investment strategy |
technical analysis technical analysis of stock trends | (stock exchange) analysis of past price changes in the hope of forecasting future price changes |
spectroscopy spectrometry spectroscopic analysis spectrum analysis spectrographic analysis | the use of spectroscopes to analyze spectra |
psychoanalysis analysis depth psychology | a set of techniques for exploring underlying motives and a method of treating various mental disorders, based on the theories of Sigmund Freud, his physician recommended psychoanalysis |
self-analysis | the application of psychotherapeutic principles to the analysis of your own personality |
building complex complex | a whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures |
superiority complex | an exaggerated estimate of your own value and importance |
complex instruction set computing complex instruction set computer CISC | (computer science) a kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the CPU chip |
structure anatomical structure complex body part bodily structure body structure | a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing, he has good bone structure |
Golgi body Golgi apparatus Golgi complex dictyosome | a netlike structure in the cytoplasm of animal cells (especially in those cells that produce secretions) |
critical appraisal critical analysis | an appraisal based on careful analytical evaluation |
analysis analytic thinking | the abstract separation of a whole into its constituent parts in order to study the parts and their relations |
cost-benefit analysis | an analysis of the cost effectiveness of different alternatives in order to see whether the benefits outweigh the costs |
systems analysis | analysis of all aspects of a project along with ways to collect information about the operation of its parts |
trend analysis | analysis of changes over time |
soul-searching self-analysis | a penetrating examination of your own beliefs and motives |
complex composite | a conceptual whole made up of complicated and related parts, the complex of shopping malls, houses, and roads created a new town |
numerical analysis | (mathematics) the branch of mathematics that studies algorithms for approximating solutions to problems in the infinitesimal calculus |
analysis | a branch of mathematics involving calculus and the theory of limits, sequences and series and integration and differentiation |
Fourier analysis harmonic analysis | analysis of a periodic function into a sum of simple sinusoidal components |
topology analysis situs | the branch of pure mathematics that deals only with the properties of a figure X that hold for every figure into which X can be transformed with a one-to-one correspondence that is continuous in both directions |
multivariate analysis | a generic term for any statistical technique used to analyze data from more than one variable |
regression analysis | the use of regression to make quantitative predictions of one variable from the values of another |
correlational analysis | the use of statistical correlation to evaluate the strength of the relations between variables |
factor analysis | any of several methods for reducing correlational data to a smaller number of dimensions or factors, beginning with a correlation matrix a small number of components or factors are extracted that are regarded as the basic variables that account for the interrelations observed in the data |
analysis of variance ANOVA | a statistical method for making simultaneous comparisons between two or more means, a statistical method that yields values that can be tested to determine whether a significant relation exists between variables |
cladistics cladistic analysis | a system of biological taxonomy based on the quantitative analysis of comparative data and used to reconstruct cladograms summarizing the (assumed) phylogenetic relations and evolutionary history of groups of organisms |
methodology methodological analysis | the branch of philosophy that analyzes the principles and procedures of inquiry in a particular discipline |
complex sentence | a sentence composed of at least one main clause and one subordinate clause |
analysis | a form of literary criticism in which the structure of a piece of writing is analyzed |
Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System MEDLARS | relational database of the United States National Library of Medicine for the storage and retrieval of bibliographical information concerning the biomedical literature |
analysis | the use of closedlass words instead of inflections: e.g., `the father of the bride' instead of `the bride's father' |
complex | (psychoanalysis) a combination of emotions and impulses that have been rejected from awareness but still influence a person's behavior |
Oedipus complex Oedipal complex | a complex of males, desire to possess the mother sexually and to exclude the father, said to be a source of personality disorders if unresolved |
Electra complex | a complex of females, sexual attraction to the father |
inferiority complex | a sense of personal inferiority arising from conflict between the desire to be noticed and the fear of being humiliated |
military-industrial complex | a country's military establishment and the industries that produce arms and other military equipment, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex--Dwight David Eisenhower |
histocompatibility complex | a family of fifty or more genes on the sixth human chromosome that code for proteins on the surfaces of cells and that play a role in the immune response |
retirement community retirement complex | a planned community for residents who have retired from an active working life |
Magnoliidae subclass Magnoliidae ranalian complex | a group of families of trees and shrubs and herbs having well-developed perianths and apocarpous ovaries and generally regarded as the most primitive extant flowering plants, contains families including Magnoliaceae and Ranunculaceae, sometimes classified as a superorder |
complex number complex quantity imaginary number imaginary | (mathematics) a number of the form abi where a and b are real numbers and i is the square root of - |