Usually means: Evaluation of similarities and differences.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. comparison: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. comparison: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. comparison: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. comparison: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. Comparison, comparison: Wordnik
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  9. comparison: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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  14. comparison: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Comparison (computer programming), Comparison (disambiguation), Comparison (grammar), Comparison (mathematics), Comparison: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Comparison: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. comparison: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  19. Comparison: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
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Art (1 matching dictionary)
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Business (4 matching dictionaries)
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  3. comparison: Legal dictionary
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Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
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Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
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Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  The act of comparing or the state or process of being compared.
noun:  An evaluation of the similarities and differences of one or more things relative to some other or each other.
noun:  With a negation, the state of being similar or alike.
noun:  (grammar) A feature in the morphology or syntax of some languages whereby adjectives and adverbs are inflected to indicate the relative degree of the property they define exhibited by the word or phrase they modify or describe.
noun:  That to which, or with which, a thing is compared, as being equal or like; illustration; similitude.
noun:  (rhetoric) A simile.
noun:  (phrenology) The faculty of the reflective group which is supposed to perceive resemblances and contrasts.

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