analogy
analogy
[əˈnalədʒi]
(pl. -ies)
analogical
adjective
analogically
adverb
语源
[əˈnalədʒi]
(pl. -ies)
- a comparison between one thing and another, typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification
比拟说明，类比
an analogy between the workings of nature and those of human societies.
自然活动和人类社会活动的相比。
[mass noun]he interprets logical functions by analogy with machines.
他通过与机器类比阐释逻辑功能。
■a correspondence or partial similarity
相似，类似
■a thing which is or is represented as being comparable to something else in significant respects
可类比物
works of art were seen as an analogy for works of nature.
艺术作品被看成是可与自然创造类比之物。 - [mass noun](Logic)a process of arguing from similarity in known respects to similarity in other respects
(逻)类比推理
■[mass noun](Linguistics)a process by which new words and inflections are created on the basis of regularities in the form of existing ones
(语言学)类推法
■[mass noun](Biology)the resemblance of function between organs that have a different evolutionary origin
(生)同功
analogical
adjective
analogically
adverb
语源
- late Middle English (in the sense 'appropriateness, correspondence'): from French analogie, Latin analogia 'proportion', from Greek, from analogos 'proportionate'
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