Meanings
- Commonwealthalternativenot comparableAlternative spelling of analog.
1 more example
"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.
2022 February 23, Benedict le Vay, “Part of rail's past... present... and future”, in RAIL, number 951, page 56
plural analogues
- countableSomething that bears an analogy to something else.
- countablebiologyAn 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
- alternativechemistryAlternative 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.”)
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveof a circuit or device having an output that is proportional to the input
nounsomething having the property of being analogous to something else
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Equivalent to ana- (“functionally similar”) + -logue. See analog.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
analogue. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/analogue
“analogue.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/analogue. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “analogue,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/analogue.
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