| comparison | |
| 1. n. The act of comparing or the state or process of being compared. | |
| to bring a thing into comparison with another; there is no comparison between them | |
| 2. n. An evaluation of the similarities and differences of one or more things relative to some other or each-other. | |
| He made a careful comparison of the available products before buying anything. | |
| 3. n. With a negation, the state of being similar or alike. | |
| There really is no comparison between the performance of today's computers and those of a decade ago. | |
| 4. n. (grammar) The ability of adjectives and adverbs to form three degrees, as in hot, hotter, hottest. | |
| 5. n. That to which, or with which, a thing is compared, as being equal or like; illustration; similitude. | |
| 6. n. (rhetoric) A simile. | |
| 7. n. (phrenology) The faculty of the reflective group which is supposed to perceive resemblances and contrasts. | |
