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analogue /ˈanəlɒɡ /(US analog) adjective1Relating to or using signals or information represented by a continuously variable physical quantity such as spatial position, voltage, etc. analogue signals the information on a gramophone record is analogue...- Boxes are required to translate the digital binary code back to analog signals for viewing.
- The CODEC then converts the digital FM audio signal into an analog waveform for conversion to sound.
- For example, analogue computers represent physical quantities using ‘continuously varying’ voltages.
Often contrasted with digital (sense 1). 1.1(Of a clock or watch) showing the time by means of hands or a pointer rather than displayed digits.Now I watch the second hand on my analog clock swoop around with the tiniest of pauses, and I wonder how it will look after another thirty years goes by....- Apart from the dubious analogue stopwatch that blights the top of the dashboard, the SCP includes a fortified ECU map that allows 10 seconds of over-boost on full throttle.
- This was the famous Philips 1500 model, made in Austria, with the piano key controls, analogue clock and top loading.
noun1A person or thing seen as comparable to another: an interior analogue of the exterior world...- The theater photographs can be read as an analogue for both the interior of a still camera and the womb.
- Murphy can use other preindustrial crafts (hunting, sailing, animal husbandry) as subjects and analogues for similarly well-made poems.
- Each makes perfect sense when seen in isolation, but will nevertheless benefit from being viewed alongside its analogues, since detailed comparisons will then become possible.
1.1 Chemistry A compound with a molecular structure closely similar to that of another: thioacids are sulphur analogues of oxyacids...- This produces the aldehyde analogue, methanal (acetaldehyde).
- The presence of this molecule or closely related analogues induces the production of the purple pigment violacein.
- Using synthetic analogs of lerisetron as molecular probes in combination with site directed mutagenesis, we have identified some of these interactions and have proposed a model of the lerisetron binding site.
Origin Early 19th century (as noun): from French, from Greek analogon, neuter of analogos 'proportionate'. |