1. analogous - Adjective
2. analogous - Adjective Satellite
Having analogy; corresponding to something else; bearing some resemblance or proportion; -- often followed by to.
Source: Webster's dictionaryNo longer was light analogous to the discharge of a blunderbuss, but rather to the pulsating flight of birds. Banesh Hoffmann
Geometric calculus consists in a system of operations analogous to those of algebraic calculus, but in which the entities on which the calculations are carried out, instead of being numbers, are geometric entities which we shall define. Giuseppe Peano
...the differential element of non-Euclidean spaces is Euclidean. This fact, however, is analogous to the relations between a straight line and a curve, and cannot lead to an epistemological priority of Euclidean geometry, in contrast to the views of certain authors. Hans Reichenbach
Strikes and boycotting are akin to war, and can be justified only on grounds analogous to those which justify war, viz., intolerable injustice and oppression. Rutherford B. Hayes
Louisiana, as ceded by France to the United States, is made a part of the United States; its white inhabitants shall be citizens, and stand, as to their rights and obligations, on the same footing with other citizens of the United States, in analogous situations. Thomas Jefferson
To avoid manufactured misunderstandings, the policies of Israeli governments are not analogous to Nazism. They do not aim at the systematic extermination of the Palestinian people, in the way Nazism sought the annihilation of the Jews. Ken Livingstone