an investigation of the component parts of a whole and their relations in making up the whole

the abstract separation of a whole into its constituent parts in order to study the parts and their relations

a form of literary criticism in which the structure of a piece of writing is analyzed

the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., `the father of the bride' instead of `the bride's father'

a branch of mathematics involving calculus and the theory of limits; sequences and series and integration and differentiation

a set of techniques for exploring underlying motives and a method of treating various mental disorders; based on the theories of Sigmund Freud

a statistical method for making simultaneous comparisons between two or more means; a statistical method that yields values that can be tested to determine whether a significant relation exists between variables

the branch of pure mathematics that deals only with the properties of a figure X that hold for every figure into which X can be transformed with a one-to-one correspondence that is continuous in both directions