COMPARABILITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does comparability mean? 

• COMPARABILITY (noun)
  The noun COMPARABILITY has 1 sense:

1. qualities that are comparable

  Familiarity information: COMPARABILITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMPARABILITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Qualities that are comparable

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

comparability; compare; comparison; equivalence

Context example:

beyond compare

Hypernyms ("comparability" is a kind of...):

alikeness; likeness; similitude (similarity in appearance or character or nature between persons or things)

Derivation:

comparable (able to be compared or worthy of comparison)

 Context examples 

Uncertain delineation of cortex areas has sometimes led to shaky comparability of brain imaging findings.

(Connectome map more than doubles human cortex’s known regions, NIH)

The vision for caCORE is to provide a common data management framework that will support the consistency, clarity, and comparability of biomedical research data and information.

(Cancer Bioinformatics Infrastructure Objects, NCI Thesaurus)

The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) was developed as the standard for use by Federal statistical agencies in classifying business establishments for the collection, analysis, and publication of statistical data related to the business economy of the U.S. It was developed in cooperation with the statistical agencies of Canada and Mexico to establish a 3-country standard that allows for a high level of comparability in business statistics among the three countries.

(North American Industry Classification System, NCI Thesaurus)