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分析 — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • analysis noun A careful, detailed examination of something in order to understand it or explain its parts.
  • analyze verb To examine something carefully, breaking it into parts to understand it better.
  • assay noun A test that determines the composition or purity of a substance, or the potency of a drug or biological sample.
  • construe noun A translation.
  • parse verb To resolve (a sentence, etc.) into its elements, pointing out the several parts of speech, and their relation to each other by agreement or government; to analyze and describe grammatically.
  • resolution noun A firm decision to do or not do something.

Senses

分析 is used for these senses in English:

  • analysis (countable) Decomposition into components in order to study (a complex thing, concept, theory, etc.).
  • analyze (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.
  • assay The act or process of ascertaining the proportion of a particular metal in an ore or alloy; especially, the determination of the proportion of gold or silver in bullion or coin.
  • assay (transitive) To analyze or estimate the composition or value of (a metal, ore etc.). [from 15th c.]
  • break down (ergative, figuratively) To divide into parts to give more details, to provide a more indepth analysis of.
  • construe An interpretation.
  • parse (computing, linguistics) An act of parsing; a parsing.
  • parse (linguistics, ambitransitive) To resolve (a sentence, etc.) into its elements, pointing out the several parts of speech, and their relation to each other by agreement or government; to analyze and describe grammatically. [from mid 16th c.]

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