(chemistry) The determination of the amounts of an element or compound in a sample. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see quantitative, analysis.

(mathematical analysis) A study of the representation of functions or signals as the superposition of basic waves, involving the notions of harmonic functions, trigonometric series, Fourier series, Fourier transforms, almost periodic functions, and others.

(mathematical analysis) Analysis founded upon the hyperreal number system, i.e., which formally defines and uses infinitesimals, especially differentials.

(idiomatic) All things considered; when all is said and done; in conclusion, basically and fundamentally.

(uncountable, statistics) A statistical method used to describe variability among observed correlated variables in terms of one or more unobserved variables (called factors).

Alternative form of in the final analysis

(computational linguistics, text analysis) The use of computers to process natural language in an attempt to identify and extract information about the writer's affective state.

A psychotherapeutic system involving analysis of relationships and interactions in terms of ego states that correspond to the roles of parent (critical and nurturing), adult (rational), and child (intuitive and dependent).

(economics) A theory that attempts to explain the discrepancy in the value of goods and services by reference to their secondary, or marginal, utility.

(linguistics) Any valid analysis of a word's morphology regardless of whether it represents its etymology in the strict sense of that word (that is, the historical origin); for example, the word biology has a surface analysis of bio- + -logy although it was not coined as the combination of those combining forms (in fact predating them). The word can validly be viewed as an example of words ending in the suffix -ology even though it was not coined as one (whereas many analogous but newer words were thus coined, such as immunology).