analogue

analogue
/an"l awg', -og'/, n.
1. something having analogy to something else.
2. Biol. an organ or part analogous to another.
3. Chem. one of a group of chemical compounds similar in structure but different in respect to elemental composition.
4. a food made from vegetable matter, esp. soybeans, that has been processed to taste and look like another food, as meat or dairy, and is used as a substitute for it.
Also, analog.
[1820-30; < F < Gk análogon, neut. of análogos ANALOGOUS; r. earlier analogon < Gk]

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      in literature, a story for which there is a counterpart or another version in other literatures. Several of the stories in Geoffrey Chaucer (Chaucer, Geoffrey)'s The Canterbury Tales are versions of tales that can be found in such earlier sources as Giovanni Boccaccio (Boccaccio, Giovanni)'s Decameron and John Gower (Gower, John)'s Confessio amantis. The French medieval beast fable Roman de Renart has analogues in several languages, including Flemish and German. The word is from the Greek análogon, “to have a relationship” or “proportional.”

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  • analogue — (n.) 1826, an analogous thing, from Fr. analogue, from Gk. analogon (itself used in English from c.1810), from ana up to (see ANA (Cf. ana )) + logos account, ratio (see LECTURE (Cf. lecture) (n.)). Computing sense is recorded from 1946 …   Etymology dictionary

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  • analogue — analogue. См. аналог. (Источник: «Англо русский толковый словарь генетических терминов». Арефьев В.А., Лисовенко Л.А., Москва: Изд во ВНИРО, 1995 г.) …   Молекулярная биология и генетика. Толковый словарь.

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