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Definition of Analogy

1. Noun. An inference that if things agree in some respects they probably agree in others.

2. Noun. Drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect. "The models show by analogy how matter is built up"

3. Noun. The religious belief that between creature and creator no similarity can be found so great but that the dissimilarity is always greater; any analogy between God and humans will always be inadequate.

Definition of Analogy

1. n. A resemblance of relations; an agreement or likeness between things in some circumstances or effects, when the things are otherwise entirely different. Thus, learning enlightens the mind, because it is to the mind what light is to the eye, enabling it to discover things before hidden.

Definition of Analogy

1. Noun. A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects, especially when used as a basis for explanation or extrapolation. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Analogy

1. resemblance in some respects between things otherwise unlike [n -GIES]

Medical Definition of Analogy

1. Two anatomical structures or behavioural traits within different and unrelated organisms which perform the same functions in each organism but which did not originate from an ancestral structure or trait that the organisms' ancestors had in common. Instead, the structures or traits arose separately and then later evolved to perform the same function (or similar functions). See: convergent evolution. Compare: homology. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Analogy

analogized analogizes analogizing analogon analogons analogous analogously analogousness analogousnesses analogs

analogue analogue computer analogue hole analogue watch analogues analogy (current term) analphabet analphabetic analphabetics analphabetism

analphabetisms analphabets analphalipoproteinaemia analvos analysability analysable analysand analysands analysation analyse

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