COMPARING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does comparing mean? 

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

1. the act of examining resemblances

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMPARING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of examining resemblances

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

comparing; comparison

Context example:

the fractions selected for comparison must require pupils to consider both numerator and denominator

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

examination; scrutiny (the act of examining something closely (as for mistakes))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "comparing"):

likening (the act of comparing similarities)

analogy (drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect)

collation (careful examination and comparison to note points of disagreement)

confrontation (a focussed comparison; bringing together for a careful comparison)

contrast (the act of distinguishing by comparing differences)

Derivation:

compare (examine and note the similarities or differences of)

compare (consider or describe as similar, equal, or analogous)

 Context examples 

To compare planets by their metallicities, scientists use the sun as a point of reference, almost like describing how much caffeine beverages have by comparing them to a cup of coffee.

('Warm Neptune' Has Unexpectedly Primitive Atmosphere, NASA)

By comparing brain activity recorded from the right and left superior colliculi at the same time, the researchers were able to predict whether an animal was seeing an event.

(Researchers discover neural code that predicts behavior, National Institutes of Health)

Comparing the results to plasmoids observed at Jupiter, Saturn and Mercury, scientists estimated a cylindrical shape at least 127,000 miles (204,000 kilometers) long, and up to roughly 250,000 miles (400,000 kilometers) across.

(The ice giant Uranus appears to be losing a bit of its atmosphere to space, NASA)

It was interesting to see patterns emerge within the individual participants, instead of just comparing people who are generally more mindful to people who are generally less mindful.

(Mindful Movement May Help Lower Stress, Anxiety, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Comparing WISE data from 2010 with Spitzer Space Telescope data from 2007, researchers determined that CX330 is likely a young star that had been outbursting for several years.

(Loneliest Young Star Seen by Spitzer and WISE, NASA)

Scientists reached this conclusion by comparing Ceres' gravity field to its shape.

(What's Inside Ceres? New Findings from Gravity Data, NASA)

Previous genome-wide association studies (GWAS), which involve comparing the DNA of patients against that of healthy controls, have found around 150 regions of the genome that clearly affect breast cancer risk.

(Detailed genetic study provides most comprehensive map of risk to date of breast cancer risk, University of Cambridge)

By comparing this score to the distribution of scores in globular and coiled-coil proteins, the program then calculates the probability that the sequence will adopt a coiled-coil conformation.

(COILS Program, NCI Thesaurus)

A device for comparing something with a similar thing or with a standard measure.

(Comparator Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)

NOTE(S): Derived from comparing PerformedObservationResult.result to the ReferenceResult.result.

(Performed Clinical Result Normal Range Comparison Code, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)