/ əˈnælədʒi; NAmE / noun ( pl. -ies )
1.
[ C ] analogy (between A and B) | analogy (with sth) a comparison of one thing with another thing that has similar features; a feature that is similar :
The teacher drew an analogy between the human heart and a pump.
There are no analogies with any previous legal cases.
2.
[ U ] the process of comparing one thing with another thing that has similar features in order to explain it :
learning by analogy
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WORD ORIGIN
late Middle English (in the sense appropriateness, correspondence ): from French analogie , Latin analogia proportion, from Greek , from analogos proportionate.