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A tool that breaks things apart to tell you what you already feared.
means A device, program, or person that examines something piece by piece to figure out what it is, how it works, or what's wrong with it.
from Straightforward construction: 'analyze' plus the agent suffix '-er,' meaning 'thing that does the analyzing.' 'Analyze' traces back through French to Greek 'analyein' — 'ana-' (up, back, throughout) plus 'lyein' (to loosen or undo) — so literally 'to loosen up, to unravel.' The ancient image is of untying a knot to see how it was tied; the analyzer is just the modern hand doing the untying.
- etymology
- from Greek analyein, to unloose or break up
- compilers
- lexical analyzer reads code before anyone judges it
- irony
- often needs more debugging than the thing it checks
- chemistry use
- identifies substances by tearing them into measurable pieces