analogue
Collocations
3ADJ.
digital, relativistic
VERB + ANALOGUE
shop, sold
ANALOGUE + NOUN
clocks, molecule
Definitions
adj
Alternative spelling of analog.
"But if so, why do you see so many young children on steam trains - apart, that is, from being dragged along by their fathers, or grandfathers? "I think they enjoy them because they are simply so different, so mechanical, so hot, oily and clanky, so dirty, so 'analogue' in a digital world. They are everything modern life tries to extirpate in favour of silence, smoothness and cleanness. Kids love that.
noun
Something that bears an analogy to something else.
An organ or structure that is similar in function to one in another kind of organism but is of dissimilar evolutionary origin.
See also: convergent evolution
Alternative spelling of analog (“A structural derivative of a parent compound that differs from it by only one or a few atoms or substituent groups; (usually, especially) such a molecule that retains most of the same chemical properties.”)
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6"But if so, why do you see so many young children on steam trains - apart, that is, from being dragged along by their fathers, or grandfathers? "I think they enjoy them because they are simply so diff
WiktionarySee also: convergent evolution
WiktionaryShe had an analogue watch.
Tatoeba · #8385427The shop sold analogue and digital clocks.
Tatoeba · #8385430Originally designed by Japanese researchers for influenza, the drug is a nucleoside analogue — a molecule that looks like a building block of genetic material.
Tatoeba · #11305553This hyperbola is important to us. It's the relativistic analogue of a circle.
Tatoeba · #11688719