comparison

IPA: kʌmpˈɛrʌsʌn

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.
With a negation, the state of being similar or alike.
(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.
That to which, or with which, a thing is compared, as being equal or like; illustration; similitude.
(rhetoric) A simile.
(phrenology) The faculty of the reflective group which is supposed to perceive resemblances and contrasts.

Examples of "comparison" in Sentences

Any sort that makes you smaller in comparison is the bad kind.
The UK, in comparison, is inferior – we can only muster an A3.
A group blog in comparison is a cacophony requiring more effort and providing less reward for that effort.
If a comparison is ever warranted, he will look like a mental giant in comparison to the Alaskan Brood Sow.
Biology -- _Comparative Anatomy_; but I would ask whether _comparison_, and that classification which is the result of comparison, are not the essence of every science whatsoever?
Hell seems to be ever-changing; Heaven's Bliss in comparison is static (although continuous change can get rather static after a while, but it's a surprise!) and who said change is bad?
_comparison_; there are two degrees of comparison, the comparative, which increases or diminishes the quality, is formed by adding _er_ to the adjective in its positive state; the superlative increases or diminishes the comparative to its last degree, and is formed by adding
Online reading of magazines (as opposed to blogs) suffers in comparison from the lack of instant ability for the reader to go to the article or report being discussed -- I have lost track of the number of times I've had to find a site via Google, then get mired in some Internet distraction and lose the thread, or never return.