Analogous

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Analogous \A*nal"o*gous\, a. [L. analogous, Gr. ? according to a
     due ratio, proportionate; ? + ? ratio, proportion. See
     {Logic}.]
     Having analogy; corresponding to something else; bearing some
     resemblance or proportion; -- often followed by to.
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           Analogous tendencies in arts and manners. --De Quincey.
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           Decay of public spirit, which may be considered
           analogous to natural death.              --J. H.
                                                    Newman.
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     {nalogous pole} (Pyroelect.), that pole of a crystal which
        becomes positively electrified when heated.
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     Syn: Correspondent; similar; like.
          [1913 Webster] -- {A*nal"o gous*ly}, adv. --
          {A*nal"o*gous*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  analogous
       adj 1: similar or correspondent in some respects though otherwise
              dissimilar; "brains and computers are often considered
              analogous"; "surimi is marketed as analogous to
              crabmeat" [syn: {correspondent}]
       2: corresponding in function but not in evolutionary origin;
          "the wings of a bee and those of a hummingbird are
          analogous" [ant: {homologous}, {heterologous}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  57 Moby Thesaurus words for "analogous":
     akin, aligned, alike, analogical, answering, coequal, coextending,
     coextensive, collatable, collateral, commensurable, commensurate,
     comparable, comparative, complemental, complementary, concurrent,
     consonant, convertible, correlative, correspondent, corresponding,
     duplicate, equal, equidistant, equipollent, equispaced, equivalent,
     even, homologous, interchangeable, kindred, lined up, matchable,
     matching, much at one, nonconvergent, nondivergent, of a kind,
     of a piece, of a size, parallel, parallelepipedal,
     parallelinervate, paralleling, parallelodrome, parallelogrammatic,
     parallelogrammic, parallelotropic, reciprocal, reciprocative,
     relative, similar, tantamount, twin, undifferentiated, uniform