| services | performance of duties or provision of space and equipment helpful to others, the mayor tried to maintain city services, the medical services are excellent |
| Secretary of Health and Human Services | the position of the head of the Department of Health and Human Services, the post of Secretary of Health and Human Services was created by Congress in |
| 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 |
| chemical terrorism | terrorism using the chemical agents of chemical warfare, can undermine the personal security of citizens, a good agent for chemical terrorism should be colorless and odorless and inexpensive and readily available and not detectable until symptoms are experienced |
| chemical engineering | the activity of applying chemistry to the solution of practical problems |
chemical defense
chemical defence | procedures involved in taking defensive measures against attacks using chemical agents |
chemical warfare
chemical operations | warfare using chemical agents to kill or injure or incapacitate the enemy |
analytical balance
chemical balance | a beam balance of great precision used in quantitative chemical analysis |
chemical bomb
gas bomb | a bomb laden with chemical agents that are released when the bomb explodes |
| chemical plant | an industrial plant where chemicals are produced |
| chemical reactor | an apparatus for holding substances that are undergoing a chemical reaction |
| chemical weapon | chemical substances that can be delivered using munitions and dispersal devices to cause death or severe harm to people and animals and plants |
| chemical property | a property used to characterize materials in reactions that change their identity |
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 |
equilibrium law
law of chemical equilibrium | (chemistry) the principle that (at chemical equilibrium) in a reversible reaction the ratio of the rate of the forward reaction to the rate of the reverse reaction is a constant for that reaction |
| 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 |
chemistry
chemical science r | the science of matter, the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions |
| chemical engineering | the branch of engineering that is concerned with the design and construction and operation of the plants and machinery used in industrial chemical processes |
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 |
| 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 |
| Chemical Weapons Convention | a global treaty banning the production or acquisition or stockpiling or transfer or use of chemical weapons |
| chemical notation | a notation used by chemists to express technical facts in chemistry |