QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does qualitative analysis mean? 

• QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS (noun)
  The noun QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS has 1 sense:

1. the act of decomposing a substance into its constituent elements

  Familiarity information: QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of decomposing a substance into its constituent elements

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

chemical analysis; qualitative analysis

Hypernyms ("qualitative analysis" is a kind of...):

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

Domain member category:

tare ((chemical analysis) a counterweight used in chemical analysis; consists of an empty container that counterbalances the weight of the container holding chemicals)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "qualitative analysis"):

uranalysis; urinalysis ((medicine) the chemical analysis of urine (for medical diagnosis))

scatology ((medicine) the chemical analysis of excrement (for medical diagnosis or for paleontological purposes))

polarography (an electrochemical method of chemical analysis)

quantitative analysis; quantitative chemical analysis (chemical analysis to determine the amounts of each element in the substance)

spectrographic analysis; spectrometry; spectroscopic analysis; spectroscopy; spectrum analysis (the use of spectroscopes to analyze spectra)

dialysis (separation of substances in solution by means of their unequal diffusion through semipermeable membranes)

dating; geological dating (use of chemical analysis to estimate the age of geological specimens)

thermogravimetry (the measurement of changes in weight as a function of changes in temperature used as a technique of chemically analyzing substances)

 Context examples 

Any method of quantitative or qualitative analysis that involves optics and/or the measurement of light.

(Optical Methods, NCI Thesaurus)

The qualitative analysis gives a quite normal condition, and shows, I should infer, in itself a vigorous state of health.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)