analogue computer
(US analog computer) now chiefly historical
noun
A computer which operates by the manipulation of continuously variable physical quantities (as voltage, spatial position, or time) which are analogues of the quantities being computed; contrasted with digital computer.
Origin
1940s; earliest use found in American Mathematical Monthly.
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