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Analogue

Analogue \An"a*logue\ (?; 115), n. [F. ?, fr. Gr. ?.]

  1. That which is analogous to, or corresponds with, some other thing.

    The vexatious tyranny of the individual despot meets its analogue in the insolent tyranny of the many.
    --I. Taylor.

  2. (Philol.) A word in one language corresponding with one in another; an analogous term; as, the Latin ``pater'' is the analogue of the English ``father.''

  3. (Nat. Hist.)

    1. 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.

    2. A species in one genus or group having its characters parallel, one by one, with those of another group.

    3. 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.
      --Dana.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
analogue

1826, "an analogous thing," from French analogue, from Greek analogon (itself used in English from c.1810), from ana "up to" (see ana-) + logos "account, ratio" (see lecture (n.)). Computing sense is recorded from 1946.

Wiktionary
analogue

a. (context British Canadian English) (alternative form of analog English) n. (context British Canadian English) (alternative form of analog English)

WordNet
analogue

adj. of a circuit or device having an output that is proportional to the input; "analogue device"; "linear amplifier" [syn: analog, linear] [ant: digital]

analogue

n. something having the property of being analogous to something else [syn: analog, parallel]

Wikipedia
Analogue (album)

Analogue is the eighth studio album by the Norwegian band A-ha, released in 2005. It is aha's first album on Polydor Records ( Universal), having previously been signed to Warner Music. Four singles were also released from this record. The album's second single, " Analogue (All I Want)" became the group's first top 10 hit on the UK Singles Chart since " Stay on These Roads" (1988). The album reached #24 in the UK and got silver certification there.

Analogue (literature)

The term analogue is used in literary history in two related senses:

  • a work which resembles another in terms of one or more motifs, characters, scenes, phrases or events.
  • an individual motif, character, scene, event or phrase which resembles one found in another work.

Similarities may be fortuitous, in which case the merit of establishing an analogue is that it makes it possible to see how works from different authors (perhaps also in different languages, periods, genres) treat similar characters or motifs. But the term is used particularly in the study of legends, folk tales and oral literature for works that have features in common either because they derive from a shared tradition or because they both rework material from a specific older text, which may or may not still survive.

For example, some claim the story of Noah and the Flood in the Bible and the Epic of Gilgamesh are analogues.

However, where one work draws directly on another, the term analogue is inappropriate: the earlier work is the source of the later.

In the literature of earlier periods, it may not be easy to decide whether a particular work is a direct source for another, especially if there are uncertainties of dating. The phrase sources and analogues is used to cover all material relevant to the creation of a particular work.

Analogue (All I Want)

"Analogue (All I Want)" is a song by the Norwegian band A-ha. It is the title track of their eighth studio album, which was released in 2005. The song itself was released as a single (30 December 2005 in Germany, 23 January 2006 in the UK, and 30 January 2006 in Norway).

Analogue (theatre company)

Analogue is a British multi-disciplinary performance company based in the South-East of England. The company consists of Artistic Directors Liam Jarvis and Hannah Barker, and Producer Ric Watts. The work of the company is led by the directors and created collectively with Associate Artists who are invited to collaborate on new projects. Described as "...visionary" and "...a young company certain to make its mark on British theatre", Analogue are an Associate company at Farnham Maltings.

Usage examples of "analogue".

So, in the other world, Kerridis, Lady of the Alfar, was an analogue of Sally?

In other words, the analogue world is topologically congruent to our own but not dimensionally.

If he chose to use his analogue hand, he could reach to every point of this multi-phase region, and still it extended across a greater and more complicated space than all the familiar universe.

But here in this analogue cosmos they were unimportant, secondary to a colossal shape crouching in an indefinable mid-region, a black corpulence in which floated half-unseen a golden nucleus, like the moon behind clouds.

He seized a fragment of nopal-stuff in his hand, in the hand of his analogue, whirled it up, beat at the sucker, at the fibril.

Burke took a fragment of nopal-stuff, tried to form it, but in the hands of his analogue the stuff was tough and refractory.

Burke reached forth with his analogue hands, broke one of the fibrils.

The gher hung in the analogue of the night sky, among great blurred star-spheres.

The gher would therefore seem to be the analogue of a material creature.

I like to think we licked that problem a year ago when we redesigned the judgment and emotional analogue circuits.

Full daylight, or its analogue, came from the brightening east to meet the travelers on the road.

The expression she normally used was an artifice that affected only her lips, unlike her tepid analogue in the other frame who smiled with her whole face, on those few occasions she had reason to smile at all.

Monday morning and planted a heap of papers on his desk: sketch-plans, preliminary figures worked out on my portable analogue computer, estimates, the lot.

Its face was an antique white analogue clock with spider-thin baroque hands and the hours marked off in Roman numerals.

Some tetrameth analogue fired through the whites of our eyes by needlespray.