analogue

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: an=a=logue

CIDE DICTIONARY

analogue, n. [F. , fr. Gr. .].

•  That which is analogous to, or corresponds with, some other thing.  [1913 Webster]

  "The vexatious tyranny of the individual despot meets its analogue in the insolent tyranny of the many."  [1913 Webster]
•  A word in one language corresponding with one in another; an analogous term; as, the Latin “pater” is the analogue of the English “father.”  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  Dana.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

analogue, n. (US analog)
1 an analogous or parallel thing.
2 (attrib.) ( usu. analog) (of a computer or electronic process) using physical variables, e.g. voltage, weight, or length, to represent numbers (cf. DIGITAL).

Etymology

F f. Gk analogon neut. adj.: see ANALOGOUS

THESAURUS

analogue

ally, alter ego, analogon, associate, brother, close copy, close match, cognate, companion, complement, congenator, congener, coordinate, correlate, correlative, correspondent, counterpart, each other, equivalent, fellow, image, kindred spirit, like, likeness, match, mate, near duplicate, obverse, one another, parallel, pendant, picture, reciprocal, reciprocatist, reciprocator, second self, similitude, simulacrum, sister, soul mate, such, suchlike, tally, the like of, the likes of, twin

ROGET THESAURUS

analogue

Similarity

N similarity, resemblance, likeness, similitude, semblance, affinity, approximation, parallelism, agreement, analogy, analogicalness, correspondence, homoiousia, parity, connaturalness, connaturality, brotherhood, family likeness, alliteration, rhyme, pun, repetition, sameness, uniformity, isogamy, analogue, the like, match, pendant, fellow companion, pair, mate, twin, double, counterpart, brother, sister, one's second self, alter ego, chip of the old block, par nobile fratrum, Arcades ambo, birds of a feather, et hoc genus omne, gens de meme famille, parallel, simile, type, image, photograph, close resemblance, striking resemblance, speaking resemblance, faithful likeness, faithful resemblance, similar, resembling, like, alike, twin, analogous, analogical, parallel, of a piece, such as, so, homoiousian, connatural, congener, allied to, akin to, approximate, much the same, near, close, something like, sort of, in the ballpark, such like, a show of, mock, pseudo, simulating, representing, exact, lifelike, faithful, true to nature, true to life, the very image, the very picture of, for all the world like, comme deux gouttes d'eau, as like as two peas in a pod, as like as it can stare, instar omnium, cast in the same mold, ridiculously like, as if, so to speak, as it were, as if it were, quasi, just as, veluti in speculum, et sic de similibus, tel maitre tel valet, tel pere tel fils, like master, like servant, like father, like son, the fruit doesn't fall far from the tree, a chip off the old block.