COMPARABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does comparable mean? 

• COMPARABLE (adjective)
  The adjective COMPARABLE has 2 senses:

1. able to be compared or worthy of comparison

2. conforming in every respect

  Familiarity information: COMPARABLE used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMPARABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Able to be compared or worthy of comparison

Similar:

comparable with (similar in some respect and so able to be compared in order to show differences and similarities)

comparable to (worthy of comparison; as good as)

Also:

equal (having the same quantity, value, or measure as another)

parallel (being everywhere equidistant and not intersecting)

Antonym:

incomparable (such that comparison is impossible; unsuitable for comparison or lacking features that can be compared)

Derivation:

comparability (qualities that are comparable)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Conforming in every respect

Synonyms:

comparable; corresponding; like

Context example:

the like period of the preceding year

Similar:

same (closely similar or comparable in kind or quality or quantity or degree)

 Context examples 

An Epoch represents a state within a study such that subjects in separate arms within that state are comparable.

(Clinical Trial Epoch, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

This agent is two- to 16-fold more potent than imipenem and comparable to ertapenem and meropenem.

(Doripenem, NCI Thesaurus)

Such studies often compare the health status of a group of persons who have been exposed to a suspect agent with that of a comparable non-exposed group.

(Epidemiologic Study, NCI Thesaurus)

The next known encounter of an asteroid of comparable size will occur in 2027 when the half-mile-wide (800-meter-wide) asteroid 1999 AN10 will fly by at one lunar distance, about 236,000 miles (380,000 kilometers).

(Asteroid to Fly Safely Past Earth on April 19, NASA)

The trapping efficiency — the ability to accumulate water ice — is also comparable.

(Dawn Maps Ceres Craters Where Ice Can Accumulate, NASA)

This analytical platform presents results comparable to those achieved using commercial instruments and has been validated in its measurement of various important compounds, such as glucose and pH.

(Scientists design platform to conduct chemical analysis using a smartphone, University of Granada)

That’s comparable to the average density of the lunar crust.

(New Gravity Map Suggests Mars Has a Porous Crust, NASA)

A test of the hypothesis that the standard deviations of two normally distributed populations are equal, and thus that they are of comparable origin.

(F-Test, NCI Thesaurus)

The combination exhibits a greater muscle sparing effect than either drug given individually at comparable doses.

(Formoterol Fumarate/Roxithromycin, NCI Thesaurus)

Network of proteinaceous structural elements in the nucleus, comparable to the cytoskeleton of the cytoplasm, responsible for large- scale translocations such as chromosome movement, spliceosome and mRNA transport, etc.

(Nuclear Matrix, NIH CRISP Thesaurus)