analogous concept

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analogous
adjective
uk
/əˈnæl.ə.ɡəs/us
/əˈnæl.ə.ɡəs/
having similar features to another thing and therefore able to be compared ...
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concept
noun[C]
uk
/ˈkɒn.sept/us
/ˈkɑːn.sept/
a principle ...
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In this section, we seek theanalogousconceptin domain theory.
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There is ananalogousconceptof wanted and unwanted data.
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Theanalogousconceptrequired is the biomass activity, that is, the thermodynamic thrust, which may be linear.
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In classical mechanics, the center of mass is ananalogousconceptto expectation.
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Annual percentage yield or effective annual yield is theanalogousconceptused for savings or investment products, such as a certificate of deposit.
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In ecology, overshoot is theanalogousconcept, where a population exceeds the carrying capacity of a system.
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Analogous concepts can be identified by creating abstracted functional models of concepts and comparing the similarities between their functionalities.
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Ananalogousconceptapplies to other planets: a planet's celestial poles are the points in the sky where the projection of the planet's axis of rotation intersects the celestial sphere.
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Because of this, many of the terms used in matroid theory resemble the terms for their analogous concepts in linear algebra or graph theory.
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Analogous concepts can be defined for edges.
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