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Encyclopedia > Analog (disambiguation)
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Analog or Analogue [1] may refer to:

Chemistry (in Greek: χημεία) is the science of matter that deals with the composition, structure, and properties of substances and with the transformations that they undergo. ... An analog or analogue signal is any continuously variable signal. ... Jump to: navigation, search An analog circuit (or analogue circuit) is an electric circuit that operates on analog signals. ... An analog/analogue computer is a form of computer that uses electronic or mechanical phenomena to model the problem being solved by using one kind of physical quantity to represent another. ... Astounding Stories was a seminal science fiction magazine founded in 1930. ... For the concept Atari (当たり) in the board game of Go, see Atari (go term). ... Jump to: navigation, search A computer is a device or machine for processing information from data according to a program — a compiled list of instructions. ... Analog is an open-source HTTP server log analyzer for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, Linux, and may other common operating systems. ... The Federal Analog Act is a controversial section of the DEA Controlled Substances Act, allowing any chemical substantially similar to an illegal drug (one in Schedule I or II) to be treated as if it were also in Schedule I, but only if it is intended for human consumption. ... Analog Devices is an American multinational producer of semiconductor devices. ... Logo en:Wiktionary Wiktionary (full URL) is a sister project to Wikipedia intended to be a free wiki dictionary (including thesaurus and lexicon) in every language. ...

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^  The spelling analog is predominant in American English, whilst analogue is used in Commonwealth English; see og/ogue. However, the spellings given above should be retained in cases where it forms part of a name or is an acronym. American English (AmE) is the form of the English language used mostly in the United States of America. ... Commonwealth English is intended as a collective term for the perceived standard English language used in the Commonwealth of Nations1, applying in theory to Australian English, British English, Caribbean English, Canadian English, Hiberno-English (Irish English)2, Hong Kong English3, Indian English (includes Pakistani English), formal Malaysia English, New Zealand... Jump to: navigation, search The differences in the spellings of British English and American English are as follows: Many of the differences were introduced into the United States by Noah Websters dictionary; he was a strong proponent of spelling reform for a variety of reasons, both nationalistic and philosophical. ... Acronyms and initialisms are abbreviations formed from the initial letter or letters of words, such as NATO and XHTML, and are pronounced in a way that is distinct from the full pronunciation of what the letters stand for. ...


General Computer Engineering Definition:


Of, relating to, or being a device in which data are represented by continuously variable, measurable, physical quantities, such as length, width, voltage, or pressure.


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The distinction of "digital" versus "analog" can refer to method of input, data storage and transfer, the internal working of an instrument, and the kind of display.
In particular, smoke signals are one of the oldest examples of a digital signal, where an analog "carrier" (smoke) is modulated with a blanket to generate a digital signal (puffs) that conveys information.
More recently invented, a modem modulates an analog "carrier" signal (such as sound) to encode binary electrical digital information, as a series of binary digital sound pulses.
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