Analogue
noun
Something that is similar or comparable to something else.
The teacher used an analogue to explain the concept better.
Often appears as...
- analogue system
- analogue device
noun
A person or thing seen as comparable to another.
He's the modern analogue of a Renaissance man.
Often appears as...
- modern analogue
- historical analogue
adjective
Relating to or using signals or information represented by a continuously variable physical quantity such as spatial position or voltage.
The video is recorded on analogue tape.
Often appears as...
- analogue signal
- analogue recording
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Technical
noun
In biochemistry, a compound with a structure similar to that of another compound, but differing from it in respect to a certain component.
It can replace the original compound and interfere with its physiological reaction.
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Academic
noun
Something that is similar or comparable to something else.
The teacher used an analogue to explain the concept better.
Often appears as...
- analogue system
- analogue device
noun
A person or thing seen as comparable to another.
He's the modern analogue of a Renaissance man.
Often appears as...
- modern analogue
- historical analogue
adjective
Relating to or using signals or information represented by a continuously variable physical quantity such as spatial position or voltage.
The video is recorded on analogue tape.
Often appears as...
- analogue signal
- analogue recording
Usage tips
Technical
noun
In biochemistry, a compound with a structure similar to that of another compound, but differing from it in respect to a certain component.
It can replace the original compound and interfere with its physiological reaction.
Usage tips
Academic
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/2Comparable Situations
Use 'analogue' to relate new concepts to familiar ones, aiding understanding.
Learning programming is the analogue of learning a new language.
Pro Tip 2/2Not Identical
'Analogue' implies similarities but important differences still exist.
A book can be an analogue to a film, but they're never quite the same.
Pro Tip 1/2Comparable Situations
Use 'analogue' to relate new concepts to familiar ones, aiding understanding.
Learning programming is the analogue of learning a new language.
Pro Tip 2/2Not Identical
'Analogue' implies similarities but important differences still exist.
A book can be an analogue to a film, but they're never quite the same.
Pro Tip 1/2Comparable Situations
Use 'analogue' to relate new concepts to familiar ones, aiding understanding.
Learning programming is the analogue of learning a new language.
Pro Tip 2/2Not Identical
'Analogue' implies similarities but important differences still exist.
A book can be an analogue to a film, but they're never quite the same.
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The Curious Life of a...
so we now went down and we scooped up some of the dirt. We are going to actually take that inside the vehicle. Some more of these analogues. So, looks like riverbeds. Picture on the left is uncorrected, just an image that comes back from the surface of Mars, looks like a riverbed. You can see false cover image of Mars that's sort of in the middle
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How we must respond to...
you know, make a vaccine, sequence it, make therapeutics, understand how to model it -- it's kind of miraculous to me. So will we learn, now, to pay attention to scientists, because if we do, I'm sure that you feel this as well, there's an amazing analogue with climate, it's just a different timescale.
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Jackson Katz: Violence...
and I want to share with you this exercise that illustrates on the sentence-structure level how the way that we think, literally the way that we use language, conspires to keep our attention off of men. This is about domestic violence in particular, but you can plug in other analogues.
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What obligation do...
All three of these things actually have analogues online. But platforms mostly focus on code, on what's physically possible in the space. And they focus much less on these other two softer, social areas. What are people doing there? Who's taking responsibility for it?
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What does an alien look...
life well I look at the only life we have an example of life on Earth and earth is a brilliant analogue for Mars even with our 326 million cubic miles of water our breathable atmosphere and our brilliant quite nice temperatures the earth still has a wealth of extreme
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Why societies collapse PIPE...
An analogue would be the growth of bacteria in a petri dish. These rapid collapses are especially likely where there's a mismatch between available resources and resource consumption, or a mismatch between economic outlays and economic potential.
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What Saturn's most...
In many ways, Titan is the closest known analogue we have to the early Earth, the Earth before life developed here. From Cassini-Huygens' measurements, we know that the ingredients for life, at least life as we know it, have existed on Titan,
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Angelo Vermeulen: How to...
First of all, it's really considered a Mars analogue. It really does look like Mars in certain locations and has been used by NASA to test equipment. And it has a long history of being connected to space through observations of the stars.
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Portraits that transform...
In order to create a new reality in its entirety, I physically create every single thing in my work, sometimes from outfits to the stage. Because I work with analogues, and I don't make any digital manipulations to my photographs,
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Letting go of outdated...
and I know their value education only that may be important or take my my children to school nominal money Peleg analogue accra a jager mata in yamato communipaw chi mai hirakud asaram this
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The Curious Life of a...
so we now went down and we scooped up some of the dirt. We are going to actually take that inside the vehicle. Some more of these analogues. So, looks like riverbeds. Picture on the left is uncorrected, just an image that comes back from the surface of Mars, looks like a riverbed. You can see false cover image of Mars that's sort of in the middle
Video examples
How we must respond to...
you know, make a vaccine, sequence it, make therapeutics, understand how to model it -- it's kind of miraculous to me. So will we learn, now, to pay attention to scientists, because if we do, I'm sure that you feel this as well, there's an amazing analogue with climate, it's just a different timescale.
Video examples
Jackson Katz: Violence...
and I want to share with you this exercise that illustrates on the sentence-structure level how the way that we think, literally the way that we use language, conspires to keep our attention off of men. This is about domestic violence in particular, but you can plug in other analogues.
Video examples
What obligation do...
All three of these things actually have analogues online. But platforms mostly focus on code, on what's physically possible in the space. And they focus much less on these other two softer, social areas. What are people doing there? Who's taking responsibility for it?
Video examples
What does an alien look...
life well I look at the only life we have an example of life on Earth and earth is a brilliant analogue for Mars even with our 326 million cubic miles of water our breathable atmosphere and our brilliant quite nice temperatures the earth still has a wealth of extreme
Video examples
Why societies collapse PIPE...
An analogue would be the growth of bacteria in a petri dish. These rapid collapses are especially likely where there's a mismatch between available resources and resource consumption, or a mismatch between economic outlays and economic potential.
Video examples
What Saturn's most...
In many ways, Titan is the closest known analogue we have to the early Earth, the Earth before life developed here. From Cassini-Huygens' measurements, we know that the ingredients for life, at least life as we know it, have existed on Titan,
Video examples
Angelo Vermeulen: How to...
First of all, it's really considered a Mars analogue. It really does look like Mars in certain locations and has been used by NASA to test equipment. And it has a long history of being connected to space through observations of the stars.
Video examples
Portraits that transform...
In order to create a new reality in its entirety, I physically create every single thing in my work, sometimes from outfits to the stage. Because I work with analogues, and I don't make any digital manipulations to my photographs,
Video examples
Letting go of outdated...
and I know their value education only that may be important or take my my children to school nominal money Peleg analogue accra a jager mata in yamato communipaw chi mai hirakud asaram this
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Frans van Houten
Dutch Businessman
Light is one of the basic areas that will give you comfort, but it is undergoing a technological revolution in moving from conventional lighting to semiconductor-based lighting, and as it does that, it is becoming intelligent with the transition from analogue to digital.
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Jenna Wortham
American Journalist
Our contemporary analogues to the personal notebook now live on the web - communal, crowdsourced, and shared online in real time. Some of the most interesting and vital work I come across exists only in pixels.
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Dorothy Dunnett
Scottish Novelist
You all know that each title in the Chronicles has a chess theme; that's partly because of the overall design of the Chronicles themselves - the game of chess as an analogue of the game of life.
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Rostam Batmanglij
American Musician
I tend to use different microphones, different mic techniques, and different recording mediums - like analogue tape - that evoke multiple eras of recorded music at the same time.
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George Crumb
American Composer
In a broader sense, the rhythms of nature, large and small - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music.
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Kevin Systrom
American Businessman
Facebook's campus has a lot of creative spaces: an analogue print shop, a candy store. It's a dynamic place and one of the best environments I've been in, period.
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Kenneth Burke
American Philosopher
Our purpose is simply to ask how theological principles can be shown to have usable secular analogues that throw light upon the nature of language.
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Noam Chomsky
American Activist
Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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Ryuichi Sakamoto
Japanese Composer
A young musician needs a powerful laptop and a good analogue synthesiser.
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J. J. Abrams
American Director
I'm obsessed with things that are distinctly analogue.
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Frans van Houten
Dutch Businessman
Light is one of the basic areas that will give you comfort, but it is undergoing a technological revolution in moving from conventional lighting to semiconductor-based lighting, and as it does that, it is becoming intelligent with the transition from analogue to digital.
Quote examples
Jenna Wortham
American Journalist
Our contemporary analogues to the personal notebook now live on the web - communal, crowdsourced, and shared online in real time. Some of the most interesting and vital work I come across exists only in pixels.
Quote examples
Dorothy Dunnett
Scottish Novelist
You all know that each title in the Chronicles has a chess theme; that's partly because of the overall design of the Chronicles themselves - the game of chess as an analogue of the game of life.
Quote examples
Rostam Batmanglij
American Musician
I tend to use different microphones, different mic techniques, and different recording mediums - like analogue tape - that evoke multiple eras of recorded music at the same time.
Quote examples
George Crumb
American Composer
In a broader sense, the rhythms of nature, large and small - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music.
Quote examples
Kevin Systrom
American Businessman
Facebook's campus has a lot of creative spaces: an analogue print shop, a candy store. It's a dynamic place and one of the best environments I've been in, period.
Quote examples
Kenneth Burke
American Philosopher
Our purpose is simply to ask how theological principles can be shown to have usable secular analogues that throw light upon the nature of language.
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Noam Chomsky
American Activist
Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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Ryuichi Sakamoto
Japanese Composer
A young musician needs a powerful laptop and a good analogue synthesiser.
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J. J. Abrams
American Director
I'm obsessed with things that are distinctly analogue.
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