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analogue
[ an-l-awg, -og ]
noun
- something having analogy to something else.
- Biology. an organ or part analogous to another.
- Chemistry. one of a group of chemical compounds similar in structure but different in respect to elemental composition.
- a food made from vegetable matter, especially soybeans, that has been processed to taste and look like another food, as meat or dairy, and is used as a substitute for it.
analogue
/ ˈæəˌɒɡ /
noun
- a physical object or quantity, such as a pointer on a dial or a voltage, used to measure or represent another quantity
- ( as modifier )
analogue recording
analogue watch
- something analogous to something else
- biology an analogous part or organ
- chem
- an organic chemical compound related to another by substitution of hydrogen atoms with alkyl groups
toluene is an analogue of benzene
- an organic compound that is similar in structure to another organic compound
thiols are sulphur analogues of alcohols
- informal.a person who is afraid of using new technological devices Compare digital native digital immigrant
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Example Sentences
But I just thought, you know, then it doesn’t feel like a yummy mistep of an analogue photo, which speaks almost to the haziness of memory, in and of itself.
“Nothing in the historical understanding of the Second Amendment warrants California’s magazine ban. Even with some latitude in searching for historical analogues, none exist,” he wrote.
Reform Party, Britain’s closest thing to a Trump analogue, over a minor doctrinal dispute that isn’t worth exploring here.
Schlotman also noted how the shops and restaurants along Cincinnati’s Race Street could be an analogue to the experience of Park City’s Main Street.
That version of the car-jacking video game is set in fictional Los Santos, an L.A. analogue where even the good guys have weapons and a nihilistic streak — the vengeful Prince of Denmark fits right in.
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