analogy

The religious belief that between creature and creator no similarity can be found so great but that the dissimilarity is always greater; any analogy between God and humans will always be inadequate.

An inference that if things agree in some respects they probably agree in others.

Drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect.

“the operation of a computer presents and interesting analogy to the working of the brain”

“the models show by analogy how matter is built up”