analoginis

Analoginis (analog) is a Lithuanian adjective meaning analog or analogue. It is used to describe things that vary continuously in time or magnitude, in contrast with digital or discrete quantities. The term is common in science, technology, and everyday speech to denote systems, signals, or representations that preserve a continuum rather than a set of distinct steps.

Etymology: the word derives from the concept of analogy and from Greek analogos, via Latin analogus, and entered Lithuanian with the suffix -inis to form analoginis.

Usage in technology: An analoginis signalas is a signal that changes smoothly over time, as opposed to skaitmeninis (digital) signals that take only discrete values. Analoginis įtaisas or apparatus processes such signals, such as analoginiai radio, televizija, or laikrodis (analog clock) whose display changes continuously rather than by fixed increments. An analoginis kompiuteris uses continuous values to model problems, historically widespread before digital computers.

Other contexts: In biology and linguistics, analoginiai organai refer to structures that share a similar function but have different evolutionary origins, while analogija denotes similarity due to function rather than ancestry. In everyday language, analoginis can also describe non-digital representations, such as an analog recording or an analog camera, emphasizing a continuous rather than a digitally sampled representation.