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Noun dissection has 3 senses

• dissection(n = noun.act) Array - cutting so as to separate into pieces; Array
is a kind of cut, cutting
Derived form verb dissect₁

• dissection(n = noun.cognition) Array - a minute and critical analysis; Array
is a kind of analysis, analytic thinking
Derived form verb dissect₂

• dissection(n = noun.act) Array - detailed critical analysis or examination one part at a time (as of a literary work); Array
is a kind of analysis
Derived form verb dissect₂

THESAURUS

dissection

analysis, analyzation, anatomizing, anatomy, assay, assaying, breakdown, breaking down, breaking up, breakup, criticism, critique, diaeresis, division, docimasy, examination, gravimetric analysis, inspection, proximate analysis, quantitative analysis, reduction to elements, resolution, review, scrutiny, segmentation, semimicroanalysis, separation, subdivision

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dissection

Decomposition

N decomposition, analysis, dissection, resolution, catalysis, dissolution, corruption, dispersion, disjunction, disintegration, decomposed, catalytic, analytical, resolvent, separative, solvent.

Inquiry

N inquiry, request, search, research, quest, pursuit, examination, review, scrutiny, investigation, indagation, perquisition, perscrutation, pervestigation, inquest, inquisition, exploration, exploitation, ventilation, sifting, calculation, analysis, dissection, resolution, induction, Baconian method, strict inquiry, close inquiry, searching inquiry, exhaustive inquiry, narrow search, strict search, study, scire facias, ad referendum, trial, questioning, interrogation, interrogatory, interpellation, challenge, examination, cross-examination, catechism, feeler, Socratic method, zetetic philosophy, leading question, discussion, reconnoitering, reconnaissance, prying, espionage, espionnage, domiciliary visit, peep behind the curtain, lantern of Diogenes, question, query, problem, desideratum, point to be solved, porism, subject of inquiry, field of inquiry, subject of controversy, point in dispute, matter in dispute, moot point, issue, question at issue, bone of contention, plain question, fair question, open question, enigma, knotty point, quodlibet, threshold of an inquiry, inquirer, investigator, inquisitor, inspector, querist, examiner, catechist, scrutator scrutineer scrutinizer, analyst, quidnunc, inquiry, inquisitive, requisitive, requisitory, catechetical, inquisitorial, analytic, in search of, in quest of, on the lookout for, interrogative, zetetic, all searching, undetermined, untried, undecided, in question, in dispute, in issue, in course of inquiry, under discussion, under consideration, under investigation, sub judice, moot, proposed, doubtful, quaere?, what?, why?, wherefore?, whence?, whither?, where?, how comes it?, how happens it?, how is it?, what is the reason?, what's the matter?, nicht wahr?, what's in the wind?, what on earth?, when?, who?.

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