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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Analogous \A*nal"o*gous\, adjective [L. analogous, Gr. ? according to a due ratio, proportionate; ? + ? ratio, proportion. See {Logic}.] Having analogy; corresponding to something else; bearing some resemblance or proportion; -- often followed by to.
Analogous tendencies in arts and manners. --De Quincey.
Decay of public spirit, which may be considered analogous to natural death. --J. H. Newman.
{nalogous pole} (Pyroelect.), that pole of a crystal which becomes positively electrified when heated.
Syn: Correspondent; similar; like. -- {A*nal"o gous*ly}, adverb -- {A*nal"o*gous*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
analogous
adjective
1: similar or correspondent in some respects though otherwise dissimilar; "brains and computers are often considered analogous"; "surimi is marketed as analogous to crabmeat" [syn: {correspondent}]
2: corresponding in function but not in evolutionary origin; "the wings of a bee and those of a hummingbird are analogous" [ant: {homologous}, {heterologous}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
57 Moby Thesaurus words for "analogous": akin, aligned, alike, analogical, answering, coequal, coextending, coextensive, collatable, collateral, commensurable, commensurate, comparable, comparative, complemental, complementary, concurrent, consonant, convertible, correlative, correspondent, corresponding, duplicate, equal, equidistant, equipollent, equispaced, equivalent, even, homologous, interchangeable, kindred, lined up, matchable, matching, much at one, nonconvergent, nondivergent, of a kind, of a piece, of a size, parallel, parallelepipedal, parallelinervate, paralleling, parallelodrome, parallelogrammatic, parallelogrammic, parallelotropic, reciprocal, reciprocative, relative, similar, tantamount, twin, undifferentiated, uniform
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