analogy
Meaning of analogy
- a comparison between one thing and another, typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification.
an analogy between the workings of nature and those of human societies
he interprets logical functions by analogy with machines
late Middle English (in the sense ‘appropriateness, correspondence’): from French analogie, Latin analogia ‘proportion’, from Greek, from analogos ‘proportionate’.
Information about analogy
- It is a name.
- The plural form of analogy is: analogies.
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Hyphenation of analogy
anal-ogy
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- analogy is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
Translation of analogy
Words that rhyme with analogy
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