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Analog or analogue may refer to:

• Analog signal, a variable signal continuous in both time and amplitude
  • Analogue electronics, electronics which use analog signals
  • Analog transmission, a transmission using analog signals
  • Analog device is an apparatus that measures continuous information.
• Analogue (literature), a literary work that shares motifs, characters or events with another, but is not directly derived from it
• An analogy
• Analog (chemistry), a structural derivative of a parent compound that often differs from it by a single element

As a title or name:

• Analog Science Fiction and Fact, the current title of the magazine originally named Astounding Stories
• A.N.A.L.O.G. (Atari News And Lots Of Games), a magazine focusing on Atari computers
• Analog (program), a computer program that analyzes log files from web servers
• Analog Devices, a semiconductor company
• The Analogs, a Polish street-punk band
• Analogue, a 2005 album by Norwegian band a-ha
• The Federal Analog Act, a section of the DEA Controlled Substances Act

See also

• Analog hole, a "security gap" that is inevitable in attempts at copy protection of sound recordings
• Analog clock, a clock or watch that represents time by position on a dial
• Analog computer, a computer that uses electrical or mechanical phenomena
• Analog photography, photography with an analog sensor
• Analog television, a television that uses an analog signal
• Analog synthesizer, a synthesizer that uses analog circuits and analog computer techniques to generate sound electronically.
• Analogical models, applied in the analysis of dynamical systems.

Usage

In the U.S., the spellings analog and analogue are interchangeable for the noun (except, for example, in the literary sense above); the adjective is usually spelled analog. In the rest of the English-speaking world the spelling is usually analogue for both noun and adjective; see og/ogue. However, the spellings given above should be retained in cases where it forms part of a name or is an acronym.

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