Analogous
[ə'næləgəs] or [ə'næləɡəs]
Definition
(adj.) corresponding in function but not in evolutionary origin; 'the wings of a bee and those of a hummingbird are analogous' .
(adj.) similar or equivalent in some respects though otherwise dissimilar; 'brains and computers are often considered analogous'; 'salmon roe is marketed as analogous to caviar' .
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Definition
(a.) Having analogy; corresponding to something else; bearing some resemblance or proportion; -- often followed by to.
Editor: Murdoch
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Similar (in relations or uses), resembling, alike, like, cognate, parallel, corresponding, allied, of a piece.
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Examples
- If it be analogous, we may hope to explain its causes from analogy, and trace it up to more general principles. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Hence in the several fishes furnished with electric organs, these cannot be considered as homologous, but only as analogous in function. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Many analogous facts, all pointing in the same direction, could be added. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Many analogous facts could be given. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- This phaenomenon is analogous to the system of pride and humility above-explained, which may seem so extraordinary to vulgar apprehensions. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- This principle is very remarkable, because it is analogous to what we have observed both concerning the understanding and the passions. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- An industrial revolution analogous to that in manufacture during the nineteenth century is distinctly probable, and capitalistic agriculture may soon cease to be a contradiction in terms. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The reformers of science like Galileo, Descartes, and their successors, carried analogous methods into ascertaining the facts about nature. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- I have received an analogous account from Dr. Gunther, who has seen a mouse thus suspend itself. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Homoplastic structures are the same with those which I have classed, though in a very imperfect manner, as analogous modifications or resemblances. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- An analogous interpretation applies to the generality and ultimateness of philosophy. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- But first let us look to a few analogous cases in our domestic varieties. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Analogous facts could be given in relation to the distribution of marine animals. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Mr. Bates, in his interesting Naturalist on the Amazons, has described analogous cases. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- We shall here find something analogous. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- But how, it may be asked, can any analogous principle apply in nature? Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- As, however, we do not know the common ancestor of any natural group, we cannot distinguish between reversionary and analogous characters. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Many similar cases of analogous variation have been observed by Naudin in the great gourd family, and by various authors in our cereals. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Other analogous facts could be given. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- It is in reality a minute rectifier of alternating current, and analogous to those which have since been made on a large scale. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Analogous facts could be given with respect to the inhabitants of the sea. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- While the principle involved therein (induction) was not precisely analogous to the above, or to the present system of wireless telegraphy, it was a step forward in the progress of the art. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- One may perhaps make this development of pictographs, ideographs, and phonograms a little clearer by taking an analogous case in English. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- This experiment, which is analogous to the one that precedes, was explained by Nicholson, in 1832, in his _Journal de Physique_. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Instruction has too often proceeded upon an analogous plan. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- These brief remarks apply to plants alone; but some few analogous facts could be given in regard to terrestrial animals. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
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