analysis

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♦ analy|sis /ən'ælɪsɪs/ (analyses /ən'ælɪsiːz/)
1 [N-VAR]
Analysis is the process of considering something carefully or using statistical methods in order to understand it or explain it.
We did an analysis of the way that government money has been spent in the past.
2 [N-VAR]
Analysis is the scientific process of examining something in order to find out what it consists of.
They collect blood samples for analysis at a national laboratory...
3 [N-COUNT]
An analysis is an explanation or description that results from considering something carefully.
...coming up after the newscast, an analysis of President Bush's domestic policy.
4 [PHRASE] PHR with cl
You use the expression in the final analysis or in the last analysis to indicate that the statement you are making is the most important or basic aspect of an issue.
I'm on the right track and I think in the final analysis people will understand that...
Violence in the last analysis produces more violence.
= in the end

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