Definition of Comparing

1. Noun. The act of examining resemblances. "The fractions selected for comparison must require pupils to consider both numerator and denominator"

Exact synonyms: Comparison
Generic synonyms: Examination, Scrutiny
Specialized synonyms: Likening, Analogy, Collation, Confrontation, Contrast
Derivative terms: Compare, Compare, Compare

Definition of Comparing

1. Verb. (present participle of compare) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Comparing

1. compare [v] - See also: compare

Lexicographical Neighbors of Comparing

comparative psychology
comparative superlative
comparatively
comparativeness
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comparativists
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comparisonitis
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Literary usage of Comparing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1809)
"... from it here that the reader may have the opportunity of comparing t'iem. ... of the navigation of England, appears by comparing this account with that ..."

2. An Inquiry Into the Human Mind: On the Principles of Common Sense by Thomas Reid (1801)
"... that our notions of relations can only be got by comparing the related ideas ... and then comparing them together, that we perceive the one to have the ..."

3. Outlines of Psychology by Wilhelm Max Wundt, Charles Hubbard Judd (1902)
"The simple functions are those of relating and comparing, the complex those of ... (Relating and Comparing.) 4. The most elementary apperceptive function is ..."

4. Electrical Papers by Oliver Heaviside (1894)
"THE following null arrangement for comparing electromotive forces is, as far as I am aware, original:—Join up the two batteries E1 and £2 with a ..."

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