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)