analogous

[US]/əˈnæləɡəs/
[UK]/əˈnæləɡəs/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. similar, comparable, equivalent

Example Sentences

The national debt is analogous with private debt.

The company is in a position closely analogous to that of its main rival.

This proposal was analogous to/with the one we discussed at the last meeting.

they saw the relationship between a ruler and his subjects as analogous to that of father and children.

This situation is analogous to the oversensitive mouse problem, and the solution is to copy switch makers and debounce the mouse.

The use of the word is analogous to its use in verse, with its traditional metrical units of iambus, trochee, dactyl and so on.

Alternatively, a type-F monist who sticks to dispositional physical concepts will make responses analogous to one of the other two responses above.

Making of cinematographic, television and video works means the fixation for the first time of a work on some materials by means of cinematographic production or analogous process.

ichthulin The globulin portion of fish eggs, analogous to the vitellin of birds eggs. The ichthulin of some fish eggs is poisonous to warm-blooded animals.

Analogous to a sundog or parhelion, the paraselene is produced by moonlight shining through thin, hexagonal-shaped ice crystals in high cirrus clouds.

Firstly, there are two types of winding patterns for toroidal vessel: spiral winding along toroidal vessel geodesics and analogous sine placement along the external surface of toroidal vessel.

Real-world Examples

But these are not analogous to what happens when man ages.

Source: New Concept English. British Edition. Book Four (Translation)

Such administrative overheads in a business are analogous to the cost of government in a nation.

Source: New Concept English. British Edition. Book Four (Translation)

And that may be because man and man's best friend use analogous brain regions to process voices.

Source: Science in 60 Seconds Listening Compilation March 2014

She said, The invention of digital bioacoustics is analogous to the invention of the microscope.

Source: Science 60 Seconds - Scientific American March 2023 Collection

Analogous color schemes use colors that are next to each other on the wheel, like blue and greens.

Source: Popular Science Essays

This was analogous to running the quantum system all the way forwards in time to where it all began.

Source: The Economist (Summary)

These joint undertakings are like, well, you might think of them analogous to playing chamber music with a string quartet.

Source: Yale University Open Course: Death (Audio Version)

There is no analogous space for me now.

Source: Huberman Lab

There appears to be something analogous in the mind.

Source: Defending Feminism (Part 2)

We shall here find something analogous.

Source: On the Origin of Species

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