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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin analogia, from Ancient Greek ἀναλογίᾱ (analogíā), from ἀ
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]analogy (countable and uncountable, plural analogies)
- A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects, especially when used as a basis for explanation or extrapolation.
- 1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson, chapter 6, in Essays: First Series:
- Yet the systole and diastole of the heart are not without their analogy in the ebb and flow of love.
- 1869, Charles Dickens, chapter 18, in The Uncommercial Traveller:
- Is there any analogy, in certain constitutions, between keeping an umbrella up, and keeping the spirits up?
- 1901, Edith Wharton, chapter 12, in The Valley of Decision:
- The old analogy likening the human mind to an imperfect mirror, which modifies the images it reflects, occurred more than once to Odo.
- 1983 January 3, “How to Write Programs”, in Time:
- Perhaps the easiest way to think of it is in terms of a simple analogy: hardware is to software as a television set is to the shows that appear on it.
- 2002, Harlan Coben, Gone for Good[1], →ISBN, page 75:
- A kid living on the street is a bit like — and please pardon the analogy here — a weed.
- (geometry) The proportion or the equality of ratios.
- (grammar) The correspondence of a word or phrase with the genius of a language, as learned from the manner in which its words and phrases are ordinarily formed; similarity of derivative or inflectional processes.
Derived terms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]relationship of resemblance or equivalence
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geometry: proportion or the equality of ratios
grammar: similarity of derivative or inflectional processes
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