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Word: Analogy
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
late Middle English (in the sense ‘appropriateness, correspondence’): from French analogie, Latin analogia ‘proportion’, from Greek, from analogos ‘proportionate’
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
əˈnalədʒi
Dialects: British English
Definition:
a comparison between one thing and another, typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification
Short Definition:comparison
Examples:- an analogy between the workings of nature and those of human societies
- he interprets logical functions by analogy with machines
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