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Symmetry vs Analog - What's the difference?

symmetry | analog |

As a noun symmetry

is exact correspondence on either side of a dividing line, plane, center or axis.

As an adjective analog is

analogue (being represented by a continuously variable physical quantity).

symmetry

Noun

(symmetries)
  • Exact correspondence on either side of a dividing line, plane, center or axis.
  • (uncountable) The satisfying arrangement of a balanced distribution of the elements of a whole.
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  • , chapter=1 citation , passage=She was like a Beardsley Salome , he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry .}}

    References

    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