ANALOGUE
\ˈanəlˌɒɡ], \ˈanəlˌɒɡ], \ˈa_n_ə_l_ˌɒ_ɡ]\
Definitions of ANALOGUE
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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An organ which is equivalent in its functions to a different organ in another species or group, or even in the same group; as, the gill of a fish is the analogue of a lung in a quadruped, although the two are not of like structural relations.
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A species in one genus or group having its characters parallel, one by one, with those of another group.
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A species or genus in one country closely related to a species of the same genus, or a genus of the same group, in another: such species are often called representative species, and such genera, representative genera.
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A word in one language corresponding with one in another; an analogous term; as, the Latin pater is the analogue of the English father.
By Oddity Software
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An organ which is equivalent in its functions to a different organ in another species or group, or even in the same group; as, the gill of a fish is the analogue of a lung in a quadruped, although the two are not of like structural relations.
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A species in one genus or group having its characters parallel, one by one, with those of another group.
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A species or genus in one country closely related to a species of the same genus, or a genus of the same group, in another: such species are often called representative species, and such genera, representative genera.
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A word in one language corresponding with one in another; an analogous term; as, the Latin pater is the analogue of the English father.
By Noah Webster.
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One of two organs or parts in different species of animals or plants which differ more or less in structure or development but are more or less similar in function.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William R. Warner
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A word or body bearing analogy to, or resembling another: (anat.) an organ which performs the same function as another, though differing from it in structure.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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A word or body which bears resemblance or analogy to another: something that acts similarly, or has the same function.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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An object that has a resemblance to, or correspondence with, another object-analogue regards similarity of function, homologue, identity of parts.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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A part in one organized being which has the same function as another part in another organized being.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
