What Is The Plural For Analysis?

The plural form of the word analysis is ‘analyses’.   This follows a standard rule for most words ending in ‘is’ including ‘crisis’, ‘hypothesis’, and ‘oasis’ to name but a few.  For all of these words the plural form is derived by dropping the ‘is’ and adding an ‘es’ such as in ‘crises’, ‘hypotheses’, and ‘oases’.

The plural form for analysis is analyses. The term analysis in philosophy refers to an entire short description of a meaning or even a content of any kind of a word, phrase or even concept. They are however, not distinguished very easily from definitions.

Analysis in terms of mathematics refers to the idea of a maximum value, moreover the limit of a sequence or the limit of a function. It also comprises of various theories such as differentiation, integration and measure, infinite series, and analytic functions. These theories are mostly referred to context of real numbers, complex numbers, and real and complex functions.

The reason that these words have weird plural forms is that they are Greek words, not English words. The plural forms are formed according to the rules of Greek.