analogue
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
analogue /ˈanəlɒg/ (US also analog)
▶noun a person or thing seen as comparable to another. ▶adjective relating to or using information represented by a continuously variable physical quantity (such as spatial position, voltage, etc.) rather than digitally.
– origin C19: from Fr., from Gk analogon, neut. of analogos ‘proportionate’.
'analogue' also found in these Oxford entries:
A/D
- ADC
- analogy
- D/A
- DAC
- decode
- designer drug
- digital
- Hilbert space
- modem
- pulse code modulation
- sample
- set-top box
- thiol
