( <美> 亦作analog)
1
- a person or thing seen as comparable to another可比拟的人（或物）：
an interior analogue of the exterior world.
外部世界的内在可比拟物。
1.1
- Chemistry a compound with a molecular structure closely similar to that of another【化】相似化合物。
词源
early 19th cent.: from French， from Greek analogon, neuter of analogos 'proportionate'.