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   Analysis , n.; pl. Analyses . [Gr. , fr.  to unloose, to dissolve, to resolve into its elements;  up +  to loose. See Loose.]
   A resolution of anything, whether an object of the senses or of the intellect, into its constituent or original elements; an examination of the component parts of a subject, each separately, as the words which compose a sentence, the tones of a tune, or the simple propositions which enter into an argument. It is opposed to synthesis.
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   (Chem.) The separation of a compound substance, by chemical processes, into its constituents, with a view to ascertain either (a) what elements it contains, or (b) how much of each element is present. The former is called qualitative, and the latter quantitative analysis.
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   (Logic) The tracing of things to their source, and the resolving of knowledge into its original principles.
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   (Math.) The resolving of problems by reducing the conditions that are in them to equations.
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   (a) A syllabus, or table of the principal heads of a discourse, disposed in their natural order. (b) A brief, methodical illustration of the principles of a science. In this sense it is nearly synonymous with synopsis.
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   (Nat. Hist.) The process of ascertaining the name of a species, or its place in a system of classification, by means of an analytical table or key.
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   Ultimate, Proximate, Qualitative, Quantitative, and Volumetric analysis. (Chem.) See under Ultimate, Proximate, Qualitative, etc.
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   Ultimate , a. [LL. ultimatus last, extreme, fr. L. ultimare to come to an end, fr. ultimus the farthest, last, superl. from the same source as ulterior. See Ulterior, and cf. Ultimatum.]
   Farthest; most remote in space or time; extreme; last; final.
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   My harbor, and my ultimate repose.
   Milton.
   
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   Many actions apt to procure fame are not conductive to this our ultimate happiness.
   Addison.
   
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   Last in a train of progression or consequences; tended toward by all that precedes; arrived at, as the last result; final.
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   Those ultimate truths and those universal laws of thought which we can not rationally contradict.
   Coleridge.
   
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   Incapable of further analysis; incapable of further division or separation; constituent; elemental; as, an ultimate particle; an ultimate constituent of matter.
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   Ultimate analysis (Chem.), organic analysis. See under Organic. -- Ultimate belief. See under Belief. -- Ultimate ratio (Math.), the limiting value of a ratio, or that toward which a series tends, and which it does not pass.
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   Syn. -- Final; conclusive. See Final.
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   Ultimate , v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Ultimated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Ultimating.]
   To come or bring to an end or issue; to eventuate; to end. [R.]
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   To come or bring into use or practice. [R.]
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