analyze. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

analyze

SYLLABICATION:	an·a·lyze
PRONUNCIATION:	n-lz
TRANSITIVE VERB:	Inflected forms: an·a·lyzed, an·a·lyz·ing, an·a·lyz·es 1. To examine methodically by separating into parts and studying their interrelations. 2. Chemistry To make a chemical analysis of. 3. Mathematics To make a mathematical analysis of. 4. To psychoanalyze.
ETYMOLOGY:	Perhaps from French analyser, from analyse, analysis, from Greek analusis. See analysis.
OTHER FORMS:	ana·lyza·ble —ADJECTIVE ana·ly·zation (-l-zshn) —NOUN ana·lyzer —NOUN
SYNONYMS:	analyze, anatomize, dissect These verbs mean to separate into constituent parts for study: analyze a chemical substance; a book that anatomizes 19th-century European history; medical students dissecting cadavers.


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