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analogue Definition

ana·logue (anə lôg′, -läg′)

noun

a thing or part that is analogous

Etymology: Fr analogue < L analogus: see analogy

analogue Telecom Definition
The British English spelling of analog. Analogue has two extra vowels, which seems like an awful waste. See analog.
analogue Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • long-acting: Insulin detemir is a soluble, long-acting basal insulin analog with a prolonged duration of effect.
  • convert: Here 562V.3 brings together all your audio sources and converts analog to digital.

Adjective modifier

  • bbsrc-approved: Grants are open to UK universities and BBSRC-approved academic analogs.
  • synthetic: The reason for this is that only the natural, living plant extract carries the healing potential, not its dead, synthetic analog.
  • discrete: Much recent work within the department has been concerned with convolution integral operators and generalizations, and with discrete analogs, viz.
  • structural: Structural analogs of LFM developed for use in organ transplantation are effective in prolonging graft survival in different animal model systems ( 15 ).
  • dual: In the UK tho, with only five terrestrial channels, the dual analog seems a little pointless.
  • academic: Applicants must be working in a UK higher education institution or academic analog.

Modifies a noun

  • switch-off: We see no reason why the license fee payer should fund analog switch-off.
  • signal: Here a receiver converts the digital signal back to an analog signal for display on a monitor.
  • tuner: I did once buy an analog tuner only to immediately find I could only pick up a couple of local stations well.
  • synths: Like analog synths, these still attract a considerable cult following.
  • circuitry: The payload contains sophisticated RF, digital and analog circuitry tightly packaged into a tube only 125mm in diameter and 1 meter long.
  • stick: The bike steers like a real bike would, using the analog stick.

Noun used with modifier

  • nucleoside: Abacavir is a nucleoside analog that is very potent against HIV.
  • somatostatin: Synthetic somatostatin analog infusion also helps in reducing the portal pressure.
  • gnrh: The risk of fracture also increased the more doses of GnRH analogs that men had received.
  • purine: All six of the patient showed a response to treatment with this purine analog.
  • thymidine: Moving away from a thymidine analog drug like AZT or D4T is associated with fat return.
  • nucleotide: Vertically on the left we list all the known resistance mutations to drugs from the nucleoside / nucleotide analog class.
analogue Quotes

Let us draw an arrow arbitrarily. If as we follow the arrow we find more and more of the random element in the world, then the arrow is pointing towards the future; if therandomelement decreasesthearrow pointstowards the past† I shall usethe phrase'time's arrow'to express this one-way property of time which has no analogue in space.

—Eddington, SirArthur Stanley