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Definition of analogy
- n. - A resemblance of relations; an agreement or likeness
between things in some circumstances or effects, when the things are
otherwise entirely different. Thus, learning enlightens the mind,
because it is to the mind what light is to the eye, enabling it to
discover things before hidden.
- n. - A relation or correspondence in function, between organs
or parts which are decidedly different.
- n. - Proportion; equality of ratios.
- n. - Conformity of words to the genius, structure, or general
rules of a language; similarity of origin, inflection, or principle of
pronunciation, and the like, as opposed to anomaly.
- n. - A resemblance of relations; an agreement or likeness
between things in some circumstances or effects, when the things are
otherwise entirely different. Thus, learning enlightens the mind,
because it is to the mind what light is to the eye, enabling it to
discover things before hidden.
- n. - A relation or correspondence in function, between organs
or parts which are decidedly different.
- n. - Proportion; equality of ratios.
- n. - Conformity of words to the genius, structure, or general
rules of a language; similarity of origin, inflection, or principle of
pronunciation, and the like, as opposed to anomaly.