Analyze

/ˈæn.ə.laɪz/ · verb

Meaning

(transitive) To subject to analysis..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To subject to analysis.
2. (transitive) To resolve (anything complex) into its elements.
3. (transitive) To separate into the constituent parts, for the purpose of an examination of each separately.
4. (transitive) To examine in such a manner as to ascertain the elements or nature of the thing examined; as, to analyze a fossil substance, to analyze a sentence or a word, or to analyze an action to ascertain its morality.

Example Sentences

This section addresses the recent homeless backlash by reviewing and analyzing antihomeless legislation[…]

The clearest lesson is that the F.D.A. needs the power to demand adequate postmarketing studies and the resources to analyze the results.

The phase structure of the fabricated nanophosphor samples was analyzed by using an X-ray diffractometer (XRD; Mac Science, M18XHF-SRA) with Cu Kα ( λ = 1.5402 Å) radiation, and the JADE software was applied to analyze the XRD data.

When sensors record a gunlike noise in, say, Cape Town or Chicago, software analyzes it for the sonic signatures of gunfire, and within seconds Beisner and his team listen to those audio files and look at those recorded waveforms at their office in Newark, Calif.

analyze a problem

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Word Forms

• analyzes
• analyzing
• analyzed
• analyse

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