analogy

analogy
[əˈnalədʒi]
(pl. -ies)
  1. a comparison between one thing and another, typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification
    比拟说明，类比
    an analogy between the workings of nature and those of human societies.
    自然活动和人类社会活动的相比。
    [mass noun]he interprets logical functions by analogy with machines.
    他通过与机器类比阐释逻辑功能。
    ■a correspondence or partial similarity
    相似，类似
    ■a thing which is or is represented as being comparable to something else in significant respects
    可类比物
    works of art were seen as an analogy for works of nature.
    艺术作品被看成是可与自然创造类比之物。
  2. [mass noun](Logic)a process of arguing from similarity in known respects to similarity in other respects
    (逻)类比推理
    ■[mass noun](Linguistics)a process by which new words and inflections are created on the basis of regularities in the form of existing ones
    (语言学)类推法
    ■[mass noun](Biology)the resemblance of function between organs that have a different evolutionary origin
    (生)同功
派生
analogical
adjective
analogically
adverb
语源
  1. late Middle English (in the sense 'appropriateness, correspondence'): from French analogie, Latin analogia 'proportion', from Greek, from analogos 'proportionate'
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