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means Something that represents information or works using continuously varying signals or physical quantities, rather than discrete digital steps — think a clock's sweeping hands instead of blinking numbers.

from From Greek 'analogos,' meaning proportionate or according to a ratio — built from 'ana' (according to) plus 'logos' (ratio, reckoning). It entered English through French/Latin 'analogue,' first describing things that were comparable or corresponding to one another. The electronics sense — signals that vary smoothly rather than switching between discrete states — is a 20th-century extension: the voltage is 'analogous to' the sound wave or quantity it represents, rising and falling in step with it, unlike digital's on-off translation into numbers.