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Analog vs Analytic - What's the difference?

analog | analytic |

As adjectives the difference between analog and analytic

is that analog is analogue (being represented by a continuously variable physical quantity) while analytic is of, or relating to any form of analysis, or to analytics.

analog

English

Alternative forms

* analogue (Commonwealth)

Adjective

(-)
  • (of a device or system) in which the value of a data item (such as time) is represented by a continuously variable physical quantity that can be measured (such as the shadow of a sundial)
  • Antonyms

    * digital * discrete

    Derived terms

    * analog circuit * analog computer * analog meter

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (countable) something that bears an analogy to something else
  • (countable, biology) an organ or structure that is similar in function to one in another kind of organism but is of dissimilar evolutionary origin
  • (chemistry) a structural derivative of a parent compound that often differs from it by a single element
  • analytic

    English

    Alternative forms

    * analytick

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • of, or relating to any form of analysis, or to analytics
  • of, or relating to division into elements or principles
  • having the ability to analyse
  • (logic) (of a proposition ) that follows necessarily; tautologous
  • (mathematics) of, or relating to algebra or a similar method of analysis
  • (analysis) being defined in terms of objects of differential calculus such as derivatives
  • (linguistics) using multiple simple words, instead of inflection
  • Antonyms

    * (linguistic) synthetic * (logical) contingent

    Derived terms

    () * analyticism * analyticity * analytic capacity * analytic combinatorics * analytic continuation * analytic cubism * analytic element method * analytic frame * analytic function * analytic geometry * analytic hierarchy * analytic induction * analytic language * analytic manifold * analytic number theory * analytic philosophy * analytic proof * analytic proposition * analytic psychology * analytic set * analytic signal * analytic solution * analytic variety * hyperanalytic * psychoanalytic