analog vs digital
Definitions
noun
- something having the property of being analogous to something else
adjective
- of a circuit or device having an output that is proportional to the input
Examples
In fact - as a percentage of the population - there's basically a direct analogy between the number of gay tax-payers and the number of gay students.
The present crisis is analogous with the situation immediately before the war.
Incidentally, while this naturally brings up an analogy to the constitutional right to an abortion, the analogy is complex.
Definitions
adjective
- of a circuit or device that represents magnitudes in digits
- displaying numbers rather than scale positions
- relating to or performed with the fingers
Examples
McGill University, however, has found a way to increase access to its rare books - thanks to a lot of grant money and one badass digital camera.
Iin this case it uses the atomic unit of digital life - a single screen of data on a Palm, a little brick of reality we spend so much time staring at all day long.
Benecken characterized the entire hacking case as "ultramodern" and said that, in a way, it exemplified the "downside" of today's digital age "that can easily been taken advantage of by savvy youths with those skills and a lot of time.
