| 释义 |
anal·o·gy
\əˈnaləjē, -ji\ noun
(-es)
Etymology: probably from Greek analogia mathematical proportion, correspondence, from analogos proportionate + -ia -y
1.
a. : mathematical proportion or ratios (as in a statement of the form a × b = c × d where the values of a, b, and c are given, so that d may be calculated)
b. : a proposition or a statement that embodies such an analogy
2.
a. : similarity of ratios or of properties
b. : inference that if two or more things agree with one another in one or more respects they will prob. agree in yet other respects
< scholasticism distinguished between analogies of proportionality, analogies by attribution, and analogies by metaphor >
3. : resemblance in some particulars between things otherwise unlike : similarity, correspondence, parallelism
< mathematicians have … appealed to the arts in order to find some analogy to their own work — Havelock Ellis >
< enameled bowls … show analogies … with late twelfth century English illumination — O. Elfrida Saunders >
4.
a. : analogue
b. : a figure of speech embodying an extended or elaborate comparison between two things or situations : similitude
5. : correspondence between the members of pairs or sets of linguistic forms that is taken as a basis for the creation of another form (as reindeers, plural of reindeer, created on the basis of such pairs as bear, bears or dog, dogs; cows, plural of cow, replacing earlier kine and kye, on the basis of such pairs as bough, boughs; glided, past tense of glide, replacing earlier glode and glid, on the basis of such pairs as guide, guided; a deck of cigarettes, standing in the same synonymous relationship to a pack of cigarettes as a deck of cards does to a pack of cards)
6. [French analogie, from Greek analogia] : correspondence in function between organs or parts of different structure and origin — distinguished from homology |