The phrase "analogous to the second" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when comparing two items or concepts, indicating that one is similar to the other in some way.
Example: "The first experiment yielded results that were analogous to the second, suggesting a consistent pattern in the data."
Alternatives: "similar to the second" or "comparable to the second".
If the 2012 Presidential campaign were analogous to the Second World War — and, for the record, it's really, really not — what stage would we have reached?
By Amy Davidson Sorkin December 27, 2011 If the 2012 Presidential campaign were analogous to the Second World War — and, for the record, it's really, really not — what stage would we have reached?
Photograph by Richard Ellis/Getty Images If the 2012 Presidential campaign were analogous to the Second World War — and, for the record, it's really, really not — what stage would we have reached?
By Philip Gourevitch President Bush has now taken to suggesting that a war to get rid of Saddam Hussein be thought of as analogous to the Second World War.
The same reasoning is valid for the third corollary, which is analogous to the second one.
The emergence of late endocrine cells is considered analogous to the second wave of endocrine cell differentiation in mammals [ 3, 5, 7].
The system right now is sort of analogous to the first cardiac pacemaker in the 1950s.
There is also an eighth category that picks up any event that is analogous to the first seven.
This criterion successfully explains the behavior analogous to the "first" and "second" explosion limits observed in homogeneous hydrogen-oxygen mixtures.
The loop is analogous to the third complementarity-determining region of immunoglobulin variable domains and has been shown to be conformationally mobile.
Additionally, analogous to the first-order case but using the Monge representation of surfaces, we give a sufficient geometric, G2 Euler condition on the curve network.
