All 3 Uses

analysis
in
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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When the Drink button was pressed it made an instant but highly detailed examination of the subject's taste buds, a spectroscopic analysis of the subject's metabolism and then sent tiny experimental signals down the neural pathways to the taste centers of the subject's brain to see what was likely to go down well.†
Chpt 17 *

analysis = the process or result of a detailed examination of something
A team of seven three-foot-high market analysts fell out of it and died, partly of asphyxiation, partly of surprise.†
Chpt 9 *
"And are you not," said Fook, leaning anxiously forward, "a greater analyst than the Googleplex Star Thinker in the Seventh Galaxy of Light and Ingenuity which can calculate the trajectory of every single dust particle throughout a five-week Dangrabad Beta sand blizzard?"†
Chpt 25

Definitions:

(1) (analysis as in: analysis of relevant data)
the process or result of examining and thinking about something to better understand it
(2) (analysis as in: psychiatrist suggested analysis)
psychiatric treatment -- (using any of many theories of the human mind that use talk therapy to understand the unconscious mind)
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)