Ana-logとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Early 19th century; from French analogue, from Ancient Greek ἀνάλογος (análogos, “proportionate”), from ἀνά (aná, “up to”) + λόγος (lógos, “ratio”).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈæ.nə.lɒɡ/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈæ.nə.lɔɡ/
• (米国発音, cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈæ.nə.lɑɡ/

形容詞

analog (not comparable)

1. (of a device または system) In which the value of a data item (such as time) is represented by a continuous(ly) variable physical quantity that can be measured (such as the shadow of a sundial).

   an analog watch

2. Not relating to, or pre-dating, digital technology such as computers and the Internet; relating to real life.

   Synonym: material

   an analog (paper) map

   • 2022 January 30, Tish Harrison Warren, “Why Churches Should Drop Their Online Services”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     But for these digital natives, the stubborn analog wonders of skin, handshakes, hugs, bread and wine, faces, names and spontaneous conversation is part of what intrigued them and kept them going to church.

   • 2021 November 18, Kara Swisher, “The Prescience of 1970’s ‘Future Shock’”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN:

     Not that I expect my children’s generation to be shocked by it all. Unlike my analog upbringing, they were born into a digital world.

   • 2021 September 15, Reeves Wiedeman, “Why Does Every Company Now Want to Be a Platform?”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN:

     But what, exactly, is a platform? In the analog world, a platform is where you catch a train or launch a rocket or give a speech — somewhere you go to do something else.

反意語

• digital
• discrete

派生語

名詞

analog (複数形 analogs)

1. (countable) Something that bears an analogy to something else.
2. (countable, biology) An organ or structure that is similar in function to one in another kind of organism but is of dissimilar evolutionary origin.

   Coordinate terms: homolog, homologue

   See also: convergent evolution

3. (chemistry) A structural derivative of a parent compound that differs from it by only one or a few atoms or substituent groups; (usually, especially) such a molecule that retains most of the same chemical properties.

   Hyponym: insulin analogue

関連する語

• homolog
• homologue
• analogy
• homology
• superanalog

関連する語

• analogetic
• analogical
• analogous

派生した語

• → Irish: analóg

アナグラム

• Algona, Angola, Langao, agonal