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- Analysis - n. - A resolution of anything, whether an object of the senses or of the intellect, into its constituent or original elements; an examination of the component parts of a subject, each separately, as the words which compose a sentence, the tones of a tune, or the simple propositions which enter into an argument. It is opposed to synthesis.
- Analysis - n. - The separation of a compound substance, by chemical processes, into its constituents, with a view to ascertain either (a) what elements it contains, or (b) how much of each element is present. The former is called qualitative, and the latter quantitative analysis.
- Analysis - n. - The tracing of things to their source, and the resolving of knowledge into its original principles.
- Analysis - n. - The resolving of problems by reducing the conditions that are in them to equations.
- Analysis - n. - A syllabus, or table of the principal heads of a discourse, disposed in their natural order.
- Analysis - n. - A brief, methodical illustration of the principles of a science. In this sense it is nearly synonymous with synopsis.
- Analysis - n. - The process of ascertaining the name of a species, or its place in a system of classification, by means of an analytical table or key.
- Scandium - n. - A rare metallic element of the boron group, whose existence was predicted under the provisional name ekaboron by means of the periodic law, and subsequently discovered by spectrum analysis in certain rare Scandinavian minerals (euxenite and gadolinite). It has not yet been isolated. Symbol Sc. Atomic weight 44.
- Concordance - n. - A topical index or orderly analysis of the contents of a book.
- Critique - n. - A critical examination or estimate of a work of literature or art; a critical dissertation or essay; a careful and through analysis of any subject; a criticism; as, Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason."
- Spectrology - n. - The science of spectrum analysis in any or all of its relations and applications.
- Fluxion - n. - A method of analysis developed by Newton, and based on the conception of all magnitudes as generated by motion, and involving in their changes the notion of velocity or rate of change. Its results are the same as those of the differential and integral calculus, from which it differs little except in notation and logical method.
- Critical - n. - Characterized by thoroughness and a reference to principles, as becomes a critic; as, a critical analysis of a subject.
- Resonator - n. - Anything which resounds; specifically, a vessel in the form of a cylinder open at one end, or a hollow ball of brass with two apertures, so contrived as to greatly intensify a musical tone by its resonance. It is used for the study and analysis of complex sounds.