similitude
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By combining the terminal speed of the sphere's fall with the resistance the sphere encounters from the fluid as it falls, researchers can determine an analogue for the Reynolds similitude.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 30, 2024
“Everyone says that we have a similitude with Guardiola’s teams and especially when he was the coach of Barça,” Bonmatí said.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 2, 2023
“The similitude across such an immense scale is astonishing,” Dr. Galison said.
From New York Times ● May 12, 2022
I have a lot of similitude with the younger Celine.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2022
The first predilection I felt in favour of one too dear—was a faint similitude I thought I discovered between him and Woodley.
From The Sylph, Volume I and II by Georgiana Cavendish
But plenty of writers can conjure exciting similitudes.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 4, 2016
For I have with wondering eyes beheld a thousand forms and similitudes, of which I am not able to write.
From Time Magazine Archive
They were deliberately chosen to create similitudes between certain books, and mark their connection with each other.
From The Mystery of Francis Bacon by William T. Smedley
Thus both are hortatory writings, the one argumentative in form, the other prophetic, after the manner of later Old Testament prophets whose messages came in visions and similitudes.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" by Various
Pious minds have been disturbed by these similitudes.
From The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal by Edgar Saltus
