ANALOGUE
\ˈanəlˌɒɡ], \ˈanəlˌɒɡ], \ˈa_n_ə_l_ˌɒ_ɡ]\
Definitions of ANALOGUE
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 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.
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 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
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