The act of comparing or the state or process of being compared.
The faculty of the reflective group which is supposed to perceive resemblances and contrasts.
An evaluation of the similarities and differences of one or more things relative to some other or each other.
That to which, or with which, a thing is compared, as being equal or like; illustration; similitude.
A simile.
With a negation, the state of being similar or alike.
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.
The act of equalizing, or state of being equalized.
Repayment to an investor in a unit trust or OEIC of an increase in the unit price to cover the seller’s entitlement to income received from the underlying investments but not yet distributed to unit holders, repaid as part of the first distribution of income to that investor.
Maneuvers to balance the pressure in the middle ear with the outside pressure by letting air enter along the Eustachian tubes.