How to Use analog computer in a Sentence

analog computer

noun

• The mind actually functions more like an analog computer.
  — Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
• One example of an analog computer is a mechanical clock.
  — New Atlas, 21 Aug. 2025
• As a result, analog computers require far less energy input.
  — Rob Toews, Forbes.com, 22 June 2026
• An analog computer is a physical simulation of a system that a user is trying to model.
  — Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2025
• There were even advanced analog computers that solved complex equations using rods and cams and others that simulated national economies by the flow of liquid through tubes between reservoirs.
  — New Atlas, 21 Aug. 2025
• And the tide-predicting machine is an example of an early analog computer that was much more useful than Babbage’s difference engine but not nearly as well known.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 2 June 2024
• The team hopes their Paul Trap could be used as an analog computer, allowing researchers to predict how proteins fold and assemble themselves efficiently.
  — Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2025
• Goto says the researchers devoted much energy and effort developing their spin-wave waveguide, which would provide the foundation for analog logic gates and other essential components of any analog computer.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 16 Feb. 2024
• In collaborative research out of Japan and Switzerland, scientists have taken an important step toward a next generation of analog computers by creating new types of logic gates based on spin waves.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 16 Feb. 2024
• Among other achievements, Garwin worked with Fermi to build an analog computer to visualize the solutions to the Schrödinger equation, a key equation in quantum physics that defines the motion of particles.
  — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 18 Dec. 2025
• One exciting startup seeking to develop a next-generation analog computer is Unconventional AI.
  — Rob Toews, Forbes.com, 22 June 2026
• When reconsidering the promise of analog computers—for new kinds of superefficient AI and new directions in conventional computing, for instance, that avoid analog-to-digital conversions—researchers often lean on optical wavelengths of light for governing an analog logic circuit.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 16 Feb. 2024
• Beginning in the early 1950s, Gilbert was involved in developing analog computer and aircraft simulation research programs at the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 23 Sep. 2019