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The act of comparing or the state or process of being compared. / An evaluation of the similarities and differences of one or more things relative to some other or each other.

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comparison

IPA(Pronunciation)

/kəmˈpɛɹɪsən/

Noun

countable uncountable rhetoric

The act of comparing or the state or process of being compared. / An evaluation of the similarities and differences of one or more things relative to some other or each other.

Japanese Meaning

比較、対比、またはそれを行う過程・プロセス / 物事の類似点や相違点を評価・検討すること

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The comparison between the two smartphones revealed clear differences in battery life.

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その二つのスマートフォンの比較は、バッテリー寿命に明確な違いがあることを明らかにした。

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Sense（1）

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

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Sense（2）

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.

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Sense（3）

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.

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Sense（4）

(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.