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analogous
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What does analogous mean?
adjective
- Having analogy, the status of an analogue; corresponding to something else; bearing some resemblance or similar proportion (often followed by "to".)
- Functionally similar, but arising through convergent evolution rather than being homologous.
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Thus the phenomena associated with the rise of Christianity and those which have appeared during the present spiritual ferment are very analogous.
At the same time it was decided that the armouring should be effected upon lines analogous to that prevailing in warship engineering.
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An analogous case arose in the application of the steam turbine to the propulsion of cargo boats, a problem as yet unsolved.
Homoplastic structures are the same with those which I have classed, though in a very imperfect manner, as analogous modifications or resemblances.
Upheavals analogous to those I have just cited are only possible when it is the soul of the masses that brings them about.