Analogous
adjective
Similar or comparable in certain respects.
A heart in humans is analogous to a pump in a machine.
Often appears as...
- analogous to
- analogous with
adjective
Performing a similar function but having a different evolutionary origin, such as the wings of insects and birds.
The camera’s iris-like shutter, an example of an analogous organ, works much like the eyes of humans.
Often appears as...
- analogous organ
- analogous structures
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Academic
adjective
Similar or comparable in certain respects.
A heart in humans is analogous to a pump in a machine.
Often appears as...
- analogous to
- analogous with
adjective
Performing a similar function but having a different evolutionary origin, such as the wings of insects and birds.
The camera’s iris-like shutter, an example of an analogous organ, works much like the eyes of humans.
Often appears as...
- analogous organ
- analogous structures
Usage tips
Academic
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Pro Tip 1/3Context Matters
Understand when comparisons make sense; 'analogous' is used when things are alike in certain aspects, not in every way.
Their roles are analogous; they both manage teams, albeit in different companies.
Pro Tip 2/3Non-Biological Use
'Analogous' is often used in non-living contexts, comparing functions or roles between different entities.
The librarian's role is analogous to a database manager, organizing information for easy access.
Pro Tip 3/3Clarifying Intent
Clearly state the aspects that are analogous to avoid confusion; it's about specific similarities.
Their strategies are analogous in how they prioritize customer service over pricing.
Pro Tip 1/3Context Matters
Understand when comparisons make sense; 'analogous' is used when things are alike in certain aspects, not in every way.
Their roles are analogous; they both manage teams, albeit in different companies.
Pro Tip 2/3Non-Biological Use
'Analogous' is often used in non-living contexts, comparing functions or roles between different entities.
The librarian's role is analogous to a database manager, organizing information for easy access.
Pro Tip 3/3Clarifying Intent
Clearly state the aspects that are analogous to avoid confusion; it's about specific similarities.
Their strategies are analogous in how they prioritize customer service over pricing.
Pro Tip 1/3Context Matters
Understand when comparisons make sense; 'analogous' is used when things are alike in certain aspects, not in every way.
Their roles are analogous; they both manage teams, albeit in different companies.
Pro Tip 2/3Non-Biological Use
'Analogous' is often used in non-living contexts, comparing functions or roles between different entities.
The librarian's role is analogous to a database manager, organizing information for easy access.
Pro Tip 3/3Clarifying Intent
Clearly state the aspects that are analogous to avoid confusion; it's about specific similarities.
Their strategies are analogous in how they prioritize customer service over pricing.
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How to speed up chemical...
This increase in velocity will help make sure collisions have the appropriate amount of energy necessary to ensure book-dropping. This is analogous to increasing the temperature of the reaction mixture. Higher temperature means particles are moving faster. Faster-moving particles means more energy, and a greater likelihood of the reaction-causing collision.
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String theory and the...
and give them the masses that we observe. So, this exciting picture is analogous to the one I showed you for the cell phone. We have the components and we have the rules of particle theory, as it's called, by which these all operate and give rise to the various things. Now, we actually think that we've only just
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Let's use video to...
Maybe they didn't know what happens when you raise something to the zeroth power. Then you build on that in the next concept. That's analogous to -- imagine learning to ride a bicycle. Maybe I give you a lecture ahead of time, and I give you a bicycle for two weeks, then I come back after two weeks,
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The Higgs Field,...
but people further away will then ask what's going on. The result will be a clump in the crowd that moves across the room. This clump is analogous to the Higgs boson. It is important to remember that it is not that massive particles interact more with the Higgs field. In our analogy of the party,
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Why our universe might...
then, because of quantum tunneling, a bubble of this state could suddenly appear in a certain place of the universe at a certain time, and it is analogous to what happens when you boil water. Bubbles of vapor form inside the water, then they expand, turning liquid into gas.
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Andres Lozano:...
until they shut down completely. This is analogous to having a power failure in an area of the brain, a regional power failure. So the lights are out in parts of the brain in patients with Alzheimer's disease, and the question is, are the lights out forever,
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Can you outsmart the...
Like your claim about rising global temperatures, these claims make a false analogy. You're assuming that because two phenomena share a characteristic, in this case warming, they are analogous in other ways,
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Why is our universe...
but they raised an analogous question. What force is driving all galaxies to rush away from every other at an ever-quickening speed? Well the most promising answer comes from an old idea of Einstein's.
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What Would Your Life Be...
days working buttons and zippers four minutes wondering what your life would be like if you reshuffle to the order of events in this part of the afterlife you imagine something analogous to your
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Predictions of tech's...
designed from the very beginning to to look inward to be focused on itself and to in a way that's analogous to the crystal palace to create an environment which is
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How to speed up chemical...
This increase in velocity will help make sure collisions have the appropriate amount of energy necessary to ensure book-dropping. This is analogous to increasing the temperature of the reaction mixture. Higher temperature means particles are moving faster. Faster-moving particles means more energy, and a greater likelihood of the reaction-causing collision.
Video examples
String theory and the...
and give them the masses that we observe. So, this exciting picture is analogous to the one I showed you for the cell phone. We have the components and we have the rules of particle theory, as it's called, by which these all operate and give rise to the various things. Now, we actually think that we've only just
Video examples
Let's use video to...
Maybe they didn't know what happens when you raise something to the zeroth power. Then you build on that in the next concept. That's analogous to -- imagine learning to ride a bicycle. Maybe I give you a lecture ahead of time, and I give you a bicycle for two weeks, then I come back after two weeks,
Video examples
The Higgs Field,...
but people further away will then ask what's going on. The result will be a clump in the crowd that moves across the room. This clump is analogous to the Higgs boson. It is important to remember that it is not that massive particles interact more with the Higgs field. In our analogy of the party,
Video examples
Why our universe might...
then, because of quantum tunneling, a bubble of this state could suddenly appear in a certain place of the universe at a certain time, and it is analogous to what happens when you boil water. Bubbles of vapor form inside the water, then they expand, turning liquid into gas.
Video examples
Andres Lozano:...
until they shut down completely. This is analogous to having a power failure in an area of the brain, a regional power failure. So the lights are out in parts of the brain in patients with Alzheimer's disease, and the question is, are the lights out forever,
Video examples
Can you outsmart the...
Like your claim about rising global temperatures, these claims make a false analogy. You're assuming that because two phenomena share a characteristic, in this case warming, they are analogous in other ways,
Video examples
Why is our universe...
but they raised an analogous question. What force is driving all galaxies to rush away from every other at an ever-quickening speed? Well the most promising answer comes from an old idea of Einstein's.
Video examples
What Would Your Life Be...
days working buttons and zippers four minutes wondering what your life would be like if you reshuffle to the order of events in this part of the afterlife you imagine something analogous to your
Video examples
Predictions of tech's...
designed from the very beginning to to look inward to be focused on itself and to in a way that's analogous to the crystal palace to create an environment which is
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James Gleick
American Author
You know, entropy is associated thermodynamically, in systems involving heat, with disorder. And in an analogous way, information is associated with disorder, which seems paradoxical. But when you think about it, a bit of information is a surprise. If you already knew what the message contained, there would be no new information in it.
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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
French Philosopher
The mineral world is a much more supple and mobile world than could be imagined by the science of the ancients. Vaguely analogous to the metamorphoses of living creatures, there occurs in the most solid rocks, as we now know, perpetual transformation of a mineral species.
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Michael Tilson Thomas
American Musician
But you know in the contemporary art world, you pose a very interesting conundrum. All sorts of people collect very contemporary art, yet when it comes to the music which is analogous to that sort of art, they are not interested, or perhaps even hostile.
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Frederik Pohl
American Writer
I don't think the scientific method and the science fictional method are really analogous. The thing about them is that neither is really practiced very much, at least not consciously. But the fact that they are methodical does relate them.
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Herbert Read
English Poet
The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason.
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Emile Durkheim
French Sociologist
Whoever makes an attempt on a man's life, on a man's liberty, on a man's honour inspires us with a feeling of horror in every way analogous to that which the believer experiences when he sees his idol profaned.
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Janet Yellen
American Public Servant
One common way of judging whether housing's price is in line with its fundamental value is to consider the ratio of housing prices to rents. This is analogous to the ratio of prices to dividends for stocks.
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James Henry Breasted
American Historian
It is this conception of the unity of the human career which is perhaps the greatest achievement of historical study, since it gained a place analogous to that of natural science.
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Rene Girard
French Historian
The protective system of scapegoats is finally destroyed by the Crucifixion narratives as they reveal Jesus' innocence and, little by little, that of all analogous victims.
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Stanley Hauerwas
American Theologian
There's an inclination to get on the inside of Jesus' psyche, and I think that's a deep mistake because it assumes that what you have here is someone analogous to us.
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James Gleick
American Author
You know, entropy is associated thermodynamically, in systems involving heat, with disorder. And in an analogous way, information is associated with disorder, which seems paradoxical. But when you think about it, a bit of information is a surprise. If you already knew what the message contained, there would be no new information in it.
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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
French Philosopher
The mineral world is a much more supple and mobile world than could be imagined by the science of the ancients. Vaguely analogous to the metamorphoses of living creatures, there occurs in the most solid rocks, as we now know, perpetual transformation of a mineral species.
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Michael Tilson Thomas
American Musician
But you know in the contemporary art world, you pose a very interesting conundrum. All sorts of people collect very contemporary art, yet when it comes to the music which is analogous to that sort of art, they are not interested, or perhaps even hostile.
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Frederik Pohl
American Writer
I don't think the scientific method and the science fictional method are really analogous. The thing about them is that neither is really practiced very much, at least not consciously. But the fact that they are methodical does relate them.
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Herbert Read
English Poet
The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason.
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Emile Durkheim
French Sociologist
Whoever makes an attempt on a man's life, on a man's liberty, on a man's honour inspires us with a feeling of horror in every way analogous to that which the believer experiences when he sees his idol profaned.
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Janet Yellen
American Public Servant
One common way of judging whether housing's price is in line with its fundamental value is to consider the ratio of housing prices to rents. This is analogous to the ratio of prices to dividends for stocks.
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James Henry Breasted
American Historian
It is this conception of the unity of the human career which is perhaps the greatest achievement of historical study, since it gained a place analogous to that of natural science.
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Rene Girard
French Historian
The protective system of scapegoats is finally destroyed by the Crucifixion narratives as they reveal Jesus' innocence and, little by little, that of all analogous victims.
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Stanley Hauerwas
American Theologian
There's an inclination to get on the inside of Jesus' psyche, and I think that's a deep mistake because it assumes that what you have here is someone analogous to us.
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