analogy
sostantivoattestato nei dialoghi
- //əˈnæləd͡ʒi//
A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects, especially when used as a basis for explanation or extrapolation.
sostantivo
- 1
A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects, especially when used as a basis for explanation or extrapolation.
Yet the systole and diastole of the heart are not without their analogy in the ebb and flow of love.
Is there any analogy, in certain constitutions, between keeping an umbrella up, and keeping the spirits up?
The old analogy likening the human mind to an imperfect mirror, which modifies the images it reflects, occurred more than once to Odo.
Perhaps the easiest way to think of it is in terms of a simple analogy: hardware is to software as a television set is to the shows that appear on it.
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The proportion or the equality of ratios.
- 3
The correspondence of a word or phrase with the genius of a language, as learned from the manner in which its words and phrases are ordinarily formed; similarity of derivative or inflectional processes.
Etimologia
From Latin analogia, from Ancient Greek ἀναλογίᾱ (analogíā), from ἀνα- (ana-) + λόγος (lógos, “speech, reckoning”).
Forme
- plurale
- analogies
analogy · A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects, especially when used as a basis for explanation or…
analysis · Decomposition into components in order to study (a complex…analyst · Someone who analyzes.analyze · To subject to analysis.