analysis

分析、解剖 ◇ana(＝ばらばらに)＋lysis(＝分解、解く)

(noun) The separation of an intellectual or material whole into its constituent parts for individual study.
(noun) The study of such constituent parts and their interrelationships in making up a whole.
(noun) A spoken or written presentation of such study: published an analysis of poetic meter.
(noun) Chemistry The separation of a substance into its constituent elements to determine either their nature (qualitative analysis) or their proportions (quantitative analysis).
(noun) Chemistry The stated findings of such a separation or determination.

Understanding conceptions of analysis is not simply a matter of attending to the use of the word ˜analysis™ and its cognates ” or obvious equivalents in languages other than English, such as ˜analusis™ in Greek or