Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - analogy
Analogy
analogy
n. (pl. -ies) 1 (usu. foll. by to, with, between) correspondence or partial similarity. 2 Logic a process of arguing from similarity in known respects to similarity in other respects. 3 Philol. the imitation of existing words in forming inflections or constructions of others, without the existence of corresponding intermediate stages. 4 Biol. the resemblance of function between organs essentially different. 5 an analogue. Derivatives analogical adj. analogically adv. Etymology: F analogie or L analogia proportion f. Gk (as ANALOGOUS)
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noun (plural -gies) Date: 15th century inference that if two or more things agree with one another in some respects they will probably agree in others, 2. resemblance in some particulars between things otherwise unlike ; similarity, comparison based on such resemblance, correspondence between the members of pairs or sets of linguistic forms that serves as a basis for the creation of another form, correspondence in function between anatomical parts of different structure and origin, see: likeness ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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