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PRONUNCIATION OF PARALOGY

paralogy  [pəˈrælɒdʒɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PARALOGY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Paralogy is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PARALOGY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of paralogy in the English dictionary

The definition of paralogy in the dictionary is false reasoning. Other definition of paralogy is an anatomical similarity without shared ancestry.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PARALOGY


anagoge
ˈænəˌɡɒdʒɪ
anagogy
ˈænəˌɡɒdʒɪ
bodgie
ˈbɒdʒɪ
dittology
dɪˈtəʊlɒdʒɪ
dodgy
ˈdɒdʒɪ
mystagogy
ˈmɪstəˌɡɒdʒɪ
pentalogy
pɛnˈtælɒdʒɪ
podgy
ˈpɒdʒɪ
roentgenology
ˌrɒntɡəˈnɒlɒdʒɪ
splodgy
ˈsplɒdʒɪ
stodgy
ˈstɒdʒɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PARALOGY

parallelogram
parallelogram rule
parallelopiped
parallelwise
paralogia
paralogise
paralogism
paralogist
paralogistic
paralogize
Paralympian
Paralympic
Paralympic Games
Paralympics
paralysation
paralyse
paralysed
paralyser
paralyses
paralysingly

WORDS THAT END LIKE PARALOGY

analogy
astrology
biology
biotechnology
dekalogy
disanalogy
ecology
Fallot´s tetralogy
genealogy
genethlialogy
information technology
mammalogy
methodology
mineralogy
pathology
physiology
psychology
sociology
technology
tetralogy

Synonyms and antonyms of paralogy in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «paralogy» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PARALOGY

Find out the translation of paralogy to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of paralogy from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «paralogy» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

谬误推理
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

paralogy
570 millions of speakers

English

paralogy
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

paralogy
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تماثل تشريحي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

паралогия
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

paralogia
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

paralogy
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

paralogie
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Paralogy
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

paralogy
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

paralogy
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

paralogy
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Paralogy
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

paralogy
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

போலிநியாயம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पालोग्य
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

paraloji
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

paralogia
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

paralogy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

паралогія
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

paralogie
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

παράλογο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

paralogie
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

paralogy
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

paralogy
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of paralogy

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PARALOGY»

The term «paralogy» is used very little and occupies the 158.911 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of paralogy
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PARALOGY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «paralogy» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «paralogy» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about paralogy

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PARALOGY»

Discover the use of paralogy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to paralogy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Historical Biogeography: An Introduction
A B C133123 1 3 2 a b c Taxon cladogram Area cladogram Paralogy-free subtree FIGURE 6.6. Paralogy-free subtrees. (a) Taxon cladogram of species A, B, and C; (b) corresponding area cladogram; 1, 2, and 3 represent the areas inhabited ...
Jorge CRISCI, Liliana Katinas, Paula Posadas, 2009
2
Molecular Evolution, Producing the Biochemical Data
Oxford University Press. By James A. Cotton Abstract Paralogy (common ancestry through gene duplication rather than speciation) is widely recognized as an important problem for molecular systematists. This chapter introduces the concepts ...
‎2005
3
Paralogic Rhetoric: A Theory of Communicative Interaction
1 The Meaning of Paralogy What, then, is for us a law of nature? It is not known to us as such, but only in its effects, i.e., in its relations to other natural laws, which in turn are known to us only as relations. — Friedrich Nietzsche Everything that ...
Thomas Kent, 1993
4
Molecules and Morphology in Evolution: Conflict Or Compromise?
Orthology and paralogy One of the most important conceptual developments in molecular phylogenetics is Walter Fitch's (1970) distinction between two kinds of homology in proteins or in genes, orthology and paralogy. Orthology has the ...
Colin Patterson, 1987
5
Fossils, Phylogeny, and Form: An Analytical Approach
Their Paralogy-free Subtree method is based on the idea that geographic data are not necessarily informative if associated with paralogous nodes. In other words, instances of area redundancy (or geographic paralogy) may be considered ...
Jonathan M. Adrain, Gregory D. Edgecombe, Bruce S. Lieberman, 2001
6
Compact Handbook of Computational Biology
Note that the relation of orthology can be assigned only to genes present in different organisms; paralogy and homology relations apply to genes in either the same or different species. 3.1 . Phylogenetic Approach to Data Selection The ...
A.K. Konopka, M. James C. Crabbe, 2004
7
Comparative Biogeography: Discovering and Classifying ...
Paralogy-free Subtree Analysis and the Transparent Method Paralogy-free subtree analysis was developed by Nelson and Ladiges (1996) to extract area homologs from areagrams by resolving geographic paralogy and MASTs. The method ...
Lynne R. Parenti, Malte C. Ebach, 2009
8
Against the Multicultural Agenda: A Critical Thinking ...
Second, Lyotard's rejection of Habermas' assumption of consensus as the goal of discourse is not refutation. He writes: "consensus is only a particular state of discussion, not its end. Its end, on the contrary, is paralogy."1 8 By paralogy Lyotard ...
Yehudi O. Webster, 1997
9
Lyotard: Philosophy, Politics, and the Sublime
Paralogy is not prescribed, it already is the case, over and above our prescribing, as Gadamer might say. This model, like Lyotard's own work in The Differend, goes beyond his considerations in The Postmodern Condition about language ...
Hugh J. Silverman, 2002
10
The Critical Turn: Rhetoric and Philosophy in Postmodern ...
Paralogy is the local disruption of consensus. One may immediately ask whether Lyotard's justification of paralogy is itself a local intervention in a discourse. When he identifies paralogy with contemporary science, he seems to imply a general ...
Ian H. Angus, Lenore Langsdorf, 1993

8 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PARALOGY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term paralogy is used in the context of the following news items.
1
NHGRI to Fund Centralized Protein Data Center
... including, but not limited to, protein sequences, nomenclature, alternatively-spliced proteins, homology and paralogy relationships, and family classifications. «GenomeWeb, Mar 15»
2
The Postmodern Condition of Knowledge
Instead, he explores whether paralogy may be the new path to legitimation. I. The Field: Knowledge in Computerized Societies. The nature of ... «h+ Magazine, Feb 15»
3
Simple sequence repeats for population-level studies of pines
... and are complicated by issues of paralogy and shared ancestral polymorphisms, especially in long-lived outcrossing tree species like pines.". «EurekAlert, Apr 14»
4
What Is Alterity?
... 2) by the affirmation of pluralism and paralogy, the non-totalizing, creative search for whatever doesn't fit nicely into systematized knowledge. «The League of Ordinary Gentlemen, Jan 12»
5
Evolutionary biology: A ratchet for protein complexity
Such paralogy seems to reoccur frequently in archaea, and a neutral co-evolutionary picture of the sort described above has been suggested to ... «Nature.com, Jan 12»
6
Confusing Evidence for Common Ancestry with Evidence for …
Finally, tree topologies of genes within paralogy blocks are not always congruent, indicating that the process of gene loss and rediploidization ... «Discovery Institute, Sep 11»
7
Ethiopia: The Fakeonomics of Meles Zenawi
Deceit, chicanery, paralogy and sophistry are the hallmarks of Zenawi's regime. For many years, that regime has managed to scam the ... «Nazret.com, Jun 11»
8
Common Design in Bat and Whale Echolocation Genes?
Horizontal gene transfer, DNA contamination, gene paralogy, long-branch attraction, and biased amino acid frequencies are all unlikely. «Discovery Institute, Jan 11»

REFERENCE
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