(chiefly US) The principle that there should be no difference in remuneration between jobs held mostly by women and jobs held mostly by men, when the women's work is comparable in skill, effort, working conditions, and responsibility to the men's work.

(anthropology, sociology, ethics) A type of descriptive ethics, focused on studying the nature and origins of beliefs about morality held by people in diverse social or cultural groups.

(grammar) In Spanish: the superlative form of an adjective when it is used in a grammatically comparative situation.

(grammar) A case used to mark a likeness to something, or that two things have the same quantity of something. It corresponds roughly to the English adverb "like". Languages that use the comparative case include Mari, Nivkh, and Chechen.

plural of comparative degree

the study of similarities and differences in the anatomy of organisms

plural of comparative case

plural of comparable function

linguist whose field is comparative linguistics.

(linguistics) A branch of historical linguistics that is concerned with comparing languages in order to establish their historical relatedness.