analogous to/with• A self-sufficientsettlement is analogous to a pin worker who must cut, bend, attach, and deliver by himself.• The situation is analogous to another regulator in the body-the one controllingweight.• This process is in many ways analogous todeductive reasoning.• Moving clockwise, orange is analogous to red.• But, contrary to popularbelief, they are not at all analogous totaperecorders.• Bandwidth is analogous to the number of lanes on a highway.• The relation between the fabula and the syuzhet is roughly analogous to the one between practical and poetic language.• In such a situation behaviour is understood to be analogous to war.
Originanalogous
(1600-1700)Latinanalogus, from Greekanalogos, from ana-“according to” + logos“reason, ratio”