ANALOGUE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does analogue mean? 

• ANALOGUE (noun)
  The noun ANALOGUE has 1 sense:

1. something having the property of being analogous to something else

  Familiarity information: ANALOGUE used as a noun is very rare.

• ANALOGUE (adjective)
  The adjective ANALOGUE has 1 sense:

1. of a circuit or device having an output that is proportional to the input

  Familiarity information: ANALOGUE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANALOGUE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Something having the property of being analogous to something else

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

analog; analogue; parallel

Hypernyms ("analogue" is a kind of...):

similarity (the quality of being similar)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "analogue"):

echo (a close parallel of a feeling, idea, style, etc.)

• ANALOGUE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of a circuit or device having an output that is proportional to the input

Synonyms:

analog; analogue; linear

Context example:

linear amplifier

Domain category:

electronics (the branch of physics that deals with the emission and effects of electrons and with the use of electronic devices)

Antonym:

digital (of a circuit or device that represents magnitudes in digits)

 Context examples 

A synthetic, colchicine analogue with potential antineoplastic activity.

(Mivobulin, NCI Thesaurus)

A synthetic, N-alkylated imino analogue of D-glucose.

(Miglustat, NCI Thesaurus)

The isethionate salt of mivobulin, a synthetic colchicine analogue with potential antineoplastic activity.

(Mivobulin isethionate, NCI Thesaurus)

A phenylretinamide and synthetic retinoid analogue.

(N-(2-Carboxyphenyl)Retinamide, NCI Thesaurus)

The N-alkylated analogue of the anthracycline antineoplastic antibiotic daunomycin.

(N,N-Dibenzyl Daunomycin, NCI Thesaurus)

An ethylretinamide and synthetic retinoid analogue.

(N-(Ethyl)-9-cis-Retinamide, NCI Thesaurus)

A liposomal formulation containing a muramyl dipeptide (MDP) analogue with potential immunomodulatory and antineoplastic activities.

(Mifamurtide, NCI Thesaurus)

Se-Methyl-seleno-L-cysteine (MSC) is an amino acid analogue of cysteine in which a methylselenium moiety replaces the sulphur atom of cysteine.

(Methylselenocysteine, NCI Thesaurus)

A cytidine analogue and nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NRTI) with anti-HIV activity.

(Apricitabine, NCI Thesaurus)

So far as I am a judge this human bone is the analogue of the one which you hold in your hand.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)