An analogy might be made to the issue of legal opinions from courts in common-law systems.

The analogy is made to locksmithing, specifically picking locks, which — aside from its being a skill with a fairly high tropism to ' classic ' hacking — is a skill which can be used for good or evil.

The same analogy can be made with B-trees with larger orders that can be structurally equivalent to a colored binary tree: you just need more colors.

In as much as both " race " and " species " are vague terms used in the classification of living creatures according, largely, to physical appearance, an analogy can be made between them.

He is best known for his exposition of the teleological argument for the existence of God in his work Natural Theology, which made use of the watchmaker analogy ( also see natural theology ).

Mimicry, humor, and the genius of analogy made The Treatment an almost hypnotic experience and rendered the target stunned and helpless.

The mind of a newborn child is regarded as completely " id-ridden ", in the sense that it is a mass of instinctive drives and impulses, and needs immediate satisfaction, a view which equates a newborn child with an id-ridden individual — often humorously — with this analogy: an alimentary tract with no sense of responsibility at either end, paraphrasing a quip made by former U. S. President Ronald Reagan during his 1965 campaign for Governor of California in which he compared government to a baby.

In his choice of the title for this book, Dawkins refers to the watchmaker analogy made famous by William Paley in his book Natural Theology.

In classical times the ceremony consisted in a procession headed by the pontifices, which bore the sacred rain-stone from its resting-place by the Porta Capena to the Capitol, where offerings were made to the sky-deity, Iuppiter, but from the analogy of other primitive cults and the sacred title of the stone ( lapis manalis ), it is practically certain that the original ritual was the purely imitative process of pouring water over the stone.

Niels Bohr's model of the atom made an analogy between the atom and the solar system.

The analogy was made with the Senegalese Tirailleurs who, after having contributed to the liberation of France, had to wait more than forty years to receive an equal pension ( in terms of buying power ) to their French counterparts.

* The Jewish songwriter Harold Rome wrote, for the musical " Pins and Needles " in 1937, a gospel song, " Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin ," which made the analogy between Belshazzar and Hitler, saying the former " didn't pay no income taxes :/ The big shot of the Babylon-Jerusalem Axis.

An analogy may be made with an iceberg-it always floats with a certain proportion of its mass below the surface of the water.

In this animation, a simple analogy is made using a gear that rotates according to the right-hand rule on a surface's normal vector.

Michael Polanyi made an analogy between a theory and a map:

For well over a century scholars such as the Grimm brothers have made a connection with continental Celtic pen or ben, " head, summit, chief " on an analogy with the Zeus karaios of Hesychius.

The American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer made an analogy to Buddhism when describing the Heisenberg uncertainty principle:

# The Analogical Voice – This voice interrupts the flow of the narration because it entertains an analogy which is used to explain a statement made in the previous verse.

It was a wonderful mechanical analogy that made understanding the effect of convex and concave lenses intuitive.

Wharton also wrote a paper about the use of the Doppler effect on the color of light emitted by binary stars to determine their distance from Earth, and made the analogy to a train whistle which changes tone as it passes.

By request of the Ministry of Education, the Teachers ' Association made a draft of how to conduct the final examinations in the humanistic subjects in Aarhus and in the draft, the Association proposed that the faculty was named the Faculty of Humanities by analogy with the corresponding faculties in Uppsala, Lund, and Turku.

A number of these theorists have made an analogy with Darwinian evolution.

To emphasize that each type of cell by itself did not actually see color but was simply more or less stimulated, he drew an analogy to black-and-white photography: if three colorless photographs of the same scene were taken through red, green and blue filters, and transparencies (" slides ") made from them were projected through the same filters and superimposed on a screen, the result would be an image reproducing not only red, green and blue, but all of the colors in the original scene.

The warrior wears a pointed hat, maybe – in analogy to the princely grave of Hochdorf – made of birchbark, a neck-ring ( torc ) and a belt with a typical late Hallstatt dagger.

This transuranic element of the actinide series is located in the periodic table below the lanthanide element europium, and thus by analogy was named after another continent, America.

This led to americium being located right below its twin lanthanide element europium ; it was thus by analogy named after another continent, America: " The name americium ( after the Americas ) and the symbol Am are suggested for the element on the basis of its position as the sixth member of the actinide rare-earth series, analogous to europium, Eu, of the lanthanide series.

The term was coined by Fanya Montalvo by analogy with NP-complete and NP-hard in complexity theory, which formally describes the most famous class of difficult problems.

The chromatographic separation behavior was then unknown for the element 97, but was anticipated by analogy with terbium ( see elution curves ).

The analogy was completed when Hawking, in 1974, showed that quantum field theory predicts that black holes should radiate like a black body with a temperature proportional to the surface gravity of the black hole.

" Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed.

This relationship was extended by analogy to a series of five relationships ():

However, when the research team synthesized element 98, they could not think of a good analogy for dysprosium, and instead named the element californium in honor of the state in which it was synthesized.

" This phenomenon, known as kindling ( by analogy with the use of burning twigs to start a larger fire ) was discovered by Dr. Graham Goddard in 1967.

The term first past the post ( abbreviated FPTP or FPP ) was coined as an analogy to horse racing, where the winner of the race is the first to pass a particular point ( the " post ") on the track ( in this case a plurality of votes ), after which all other runners automatically and completely lose ( that is, the payoff is " winner-takes-all ").

The media, in an attempt to explain the ideology of Ayatollah Khomeini and the Iranian Revolution to a Western audience described it as a " fundamentalist version of Islam " by way of analogy to the Christian fundamentalist movement in the U. S. Thus was born the term " Islamic fundamentalist ", which would come to be one of the most common usages of the term in the following years.

They proposed – among others – that in a fully competitive economic environment ( as they thought was the case of ecosystems ) the most potent individuals would thrive and in turn society would prosper ( in analogy to the observed biodiversity and abundance of life on earth ).

Gnutella ( with a silent g, but often ) ( possibly by analogy with the GNU Project ) is a large peer-to-peer network which, at the time of its creation, was the first decentralized peer-to-peer network of its kind, leading to other, later networks adopting the model.

The horizontal distance was cut in 1872 by a British engineer, Waynman Dixon, who believed on the analogy of the King's Chamber that such shafts must exist.

In particular, the term " graph " was introduced by Sylvester in a paper published in 1878 in Nature, where he draws an analogy between " quantic invariants " and " co-variants " of algebra and molecular diagrams:

By analogy with the ancient Greek term for agriculture, geoponics, the science of cultivating the earth, Gericke coined the term hydroponics in 1937 ( although he asserts that the term was suggested by W. A. Setchell, of the University of California ) for the culture of plants in water ( from the Greek hydro -, " water ", and ponos, " labour ").

Hawking's result was called the second law of black hole thermodynamics, by analogy with the law of entropy increase, but at first, he did not take the analogy too seriously.

" and used the analogy of the scaffolding called centering used to build an arch then removed afterwards: " Surely there was ' scaffolding '.

The term was introduced by Darwin in his groundbreaking 1859 book On the Origin of Species, in which natural selection was described by analogy to artificial selection, a process by which animals and plants with traits considered desirable by human breeders are systematically favored for reproduction.

Their argument was based upon an analogy to contemporary work by Paul J. Crutzen and Harold Johnston, which had

In this analogy, what was previously a still, shoreless Ocean now stirred, forming innumerable " drops " of itself or souls.