^ Analysis: M-W Definition

Parents

^ a Detailed Examination of Anything Complex (as a Novel, an Organization, a Race) Made in Order to Understand Its Nature or to Determine Its Essential Features :
^ Psychoanalysis
^ Separation or Breaking up of a Whole into Its Fundamental Elements or Component Parts
^ the Elucidation, Clarification, and Explication of Expressions and Statements through a Determination of Their Meaning or Logical Use
^ the Presentation, Usually in Writing, of Such an Analysis
^ the Resolution of Knowledge into Its Fundamental Factors or Original Principles and the Tracing or Reduction of Physical, Phenomenal, or Abstract Entities to Their Source or Elements