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analog
[an-l-awg, -og]
adjective
of or relating to a mechanism, device, or technology that represents data by measurement of a continuous physical variable, as voltage or pressure.
displaying a readout by a pointer or hands on a dial rather than by numerical digits.
an analog clock.
relating to or denoting an activity, process, etc., that is not online or computerized but that can also exist or happen with the help of such technology: She prefers analog dating, meeting and getting to know someone first in a real-life setting before deciding whether to pursue a personal relationship.
In most ways, the grocery industry has remained stubbornly analog for the past few decades.
She prefers analog dating, meeting and getting to know someone first in a real-life setting before deciding whether to pursue a personal relationship.
analog
/ ˈæəˌɒɡ /
noun
a variant spelling of analogue
analog
Measuring or representing data by means of one or more physical properties that can express any value along a continuous scale. For example, the position of the hands of a clock is an analog representation of time.
Compare digital
An organ or structure that is similar in function to one in another kind of organism but is of dissimilar evolutionary origin. The wings of birds and the wings of insects are analogs.
A chemical compound that has a similar structure and similar chemical properties to those of another compound, but differs from it by a single element or group. The antibiotic amoxicillin, for example, is an analog of penicillin, differing from the latter by the addition of an amino group.
Compare homologue
Usage
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of analog1
Example Sentences
Disappointingly, there is no catalog, but fragments of the art’s fun-drenched analog Wayback Machine are destined to live on in digital ether.
It is different, but perhaps the closest analog might be so-called "massive resistance" in the South and some other parts of the United States to the mandate of Brown v.
Overall, more than 60% of our drugs come from analogs in nature.
Given the analog nature of Paul’s setup, she had to sing everything live and unmanipulated.
Chew-Bose directs viewers to settle into the film’s rhythm, which feels almost analog, recalling a time when our immediate references for human behavior weren’t 60-second vertical videos.
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