The Unix command performs an entirely different function analogous to .

A matching function is in general analogous to a production function.

In Reformed and Anabaptist churches, a table, often called a "communion table", serves an analogous function.

Enriched flour serves an analogous function to "enriched salt".

A district has a function analogous to a stake, but is organized where there are too few members to organize a stake.

This subunit may have an analogous function in Metazoa.

Later "this" and "there" are added (with functions analogous to the function these words have in natural language), and "a, b, c, d" as numerals.

In this way they perform an analogous (similar) function to financial audits.

The Scandinavian god Heimdallr performs an analogous function: he is born first and will die last.

Women-only groups serve analogous functions for women.