0 past simple and past participle of analyse
1 to study or examine something in detail, in order to discover more about it:
Researchers analysed the purchases of 6,300 households.
Water samples taken from streams were analysed for contamination by chemicals.
The data was analysed according to neighbourhoods, but other key variables like credit rating, job history, savings and marital status were ignored altogether.
A packet of white powder was found and police scientists are analysing it.
The report was written after analysing data from the case histories of thousands of patients.
The resulting images were processed and analysed as with the 38-mm photographs (see above) to obtain the percentage white pixels.
Missing responses (5.6% of all data points) were replaced as before, and the data analysed in the same manner as before.
It remains to be analysed whether such a mechanism is working in tapeworminfected copepods as well.