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analogy

 [ah-nal´o-je]
the quality of being analogous; resemblance or similarity in function or appearance, but not in origin or development.
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analogy

(ə-năl′ə-jē)
n. pl. analo·gies
Biology Correspondence in function or position between organs of dissimilar evolutionary origin or structure.
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Such way of modelling implies an implicit analogy between economic and biological systems.
Three major themes ran through the rest of the workshop: formal analogy, adaptation and abstraction, and design by analogy.
I constructed 49 four-option multiple choice verbal analogy items in the form of 'A is to B as C is to D.' Some of the items were translated and modified by the researcher from free verbal analogies practice tests available on the McGraw Hill website (http://www.mheducation.com/) and some were constructed by the researcher.
He added that "by dint of fallacious analogy and reasoning" Lal surprisingly assumed "fictional animation" of what actually happened inside and outside the Talwars' Noida residence on May 14-15, 2008, to provide "live and colourful description of the incident".
The relevance of this paper is that the application of the electrostatic analogy for the formulation and testing of numerical algorithms for solving magnetostatic problems of magnetized bodies leads to difficulties associated with a lack of clarity in well-known publications.
At the core of Anderson's argument is a reading of analogy or analogical thinking from Aristotle inherited by Bacon, Galileo, and Descartes.
But the sweets-are-men analogy and the Skittles-are-refugees analogies are also different.
To encourage research on analogy, Forbus's team is releasing the SME source code and a 5,000-example corpus, which includes comparisons drawn from visual problem solving, textbook problem solving, and moral decision making.
In other words, the dance teacher in Art IMPACT Middle School used personal analogy to compare dance movement to the understanding of the body system by which oxygen moves to the heart.
Proponents of the popular central sensitization analogy have put forward five types of evidence --psychophysical, neuroimaging, genetic, neurotransmitters, and treatments--to support their view, but Dr.
This study develops these earlier studies of botanical poetry and analogy to present a new kind of analogy as a way of understanding the didactic function of plant names and the ways in which both poets' works convey both aesthetic experience and technical knowledge.
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