American English pronunciation
How to pronounce analogy
IPA transcription: [ə'nælədʒi]
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Noun
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an inference that if things agree in some respects they probably agree in others
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drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect
“the operation of a computer presents and interesting analogy to the working of the brain”
“the models show by analogy how matter is built up”
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the religious belief that between creature and creator no similarity can be found so great but that the dissimilarity is always greater; any analogy between God and humans will always be inadequate
Usage examples
- A common analogy is to turpentine or creosote.
- This field is called "p"-adic complex numbers by analogy.
- The term was then transferred to computers through analogy.
- Rosny, president of the Goncourt academy, in analogy with aeronautics.
- It is evidently the "analogy of experience" that underlies its useful application.
- It was coined by analogy with the adjacent Kingsbury station.
- Reviews often discussed Kelly's hive-mind analogy as a metaphor for the New Economy.
- For an analogy, one could imagine a multistoried building with an elevator structure.
- An analogy to this is the broadcasting region of a radio antenna.
- There is no unique paradigm for establishing this analogy.