comparison
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Definitions ofcomparison
- The act of comparing or the state or process of being compared.
Example: "to bring a thing into comparison with another; there is no comparison between them"
- An evaluation of the similarities and differences of one or more things relative to some other or each-other.
Example: "He made a careful comparison of the available products before buying anything."
- With a negation, the state of being similar or alike.
Example: "There really is no comparison between the performance of today's computers and those of a decade ago."
- (grammar) The ability of adjectives and adverbs to form three degrees, as in hot, hotter, hottest.
- That to which, or with which, a thing is compared, as being equal or like; illustration; similitude.
- A simile.
- The faculty of the reflective group which is supposed to perceive resemblances and contrasts.
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