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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
comparison/kəmˈparɪsn/

▶noun

1 an act of comparing.
■ the quality of being similar or equivalent.

2 Grammar the formation of the comparative and superlative forms of adjectives and adverbs.

– phrases
beyond comparison another way of saying beyond compare (see compare).

– origin ME: from OFr. comparesoun, from L. comparatio(n-), from comparare (see compare).

'comparison' also found in these Oxford entries:

analogy - as - benchmark - calibrate - comparative - comparative linguistics - contest - control - cross-cultural - datum line - disproportionate - draw - dwarf - fiducial - hyperreal - -ior - -ison - league table - measure - narrow - neck - next - octane number - outrival - parable - parallel - parlance - part - reference point - relative - simile - similitude - standardize - than - to - whereas - yardstick

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