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analogous*nal"o*gous (&?;), a. [l. analogous, gr. &?;
according to a
due ratio, proportionate; &?; + &?; ratio, proportion.
see logic.]
having analogy;
corresponding to
something else;
bearing some resemblance or proportion; --
often followed by to.
analogous tendencies in
arts and manners.
decay of
public spirit,
which may be
considered analogous to
natural death. h. newman.
(
a.)
Having analogy;
corresponding to
something else;
bearing some resemblance or proportion; --
often followed by to. Â
corresponding (to
some other) in
certain respects, as in form, proportion, relations.
Adjective1.
similar or
correspondent in
some respects though otherwise dissimilar; "brains
and computers are often considered analogous"; "surimi is
marketed as
analogous to crabmeat" (synonym)
correspondent (similar) similar2.
corresponding in
function but not in
evolutionary origin; "the
wings of a
bee and those of a
hummingbird are analogous" (antonym)
homologous (classification) biology,
biological science
analógach
Dar = a.
prefix that implies before, upon, or
about to be,
analogous to
Analogy is
both the cognitive process of transferring information from a
particular subject (the
analogue or source) to
another particular subject (the target),
and a linguistic expression
corresponding to
such a process. In a
narrower sense,
analogy is an inference or an argument from a
particular to
another particular, as
opposed to deduction, induction, and abduction,
where at
least one of the premises or
the conclusion is general.
the word analogy can also refer to
the relation between the source and the target themselves,
which is often,
though not necessarily, a similarity, as in the biological
notion of analogy.
analogy plays a
significant role in problem solving, decision making, perception, memory, creativity, emotion, explanation and communication. It
lies behind basic tasks such as
the identification of places,
objects and people,
for example, in face perception and facial
recognition systems. It
has been argued that analogy is "the
core of cognition" (Hofstadter in Gentner et al. 2001).
specific analogical language comprises exemplification, comparisons, metaphors, similes, allegories, and parables,
but not metonymy.
phrases like and so on,
and the like,
as if,
and the very word like also rely on an
analogical understanding by
the receiver of a message including them.
analogy is
important not only in ordinary language and common sense, where proverbs and idioms give
many examples of
its application,
but also in science, philosophy and the humanities.
the concepts of association, comparison,  correspondence, mathematical and morphological homology, homomorphism, iconicity, isomorphism, metaphor, resemblance, and similarity are
closely related to analogy. In cognitive linguistics,
the notion of conceptual metaphor may be
equivalent to
that of analogy.
