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  1. adjective Relating to, based on, or involving comparison.
  2. adjective Of or relating to the scientific or historical comparison of different phenomena, institutions, or objects, such as languages, legal systems, or anatomical structures, in an effort to understand their origins or relationships.
  3. adjective Estimated by comparison; relative: a comparative newcomer.

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  • The series supports research that is geographically and temporally broad, methodologically pluralistic, and that crosses boundaries by engaging theoretical traditions in American, comparative, and international relations. —  The Chicago Blog
  • 708.). When referred to as a comparative instrument_, (a use I shall now make of it very extensively,) it will not often require particular precaution in the observation; but when used as an absolute measurer_, it will be needful that the barometric pressure and the temperature be taken into account, and that the graduation of the instruments should be to one scale; the hundredths and smaller divisions of a cubical inch are quite fit for this purpose, and the hundredth may be very conveniently taken as indicating a DEGREE of electricity 737. —  Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1
  • "Current trends in Indo-European comparative mythology are taking several directions. —  Atlas Shrugs
  • Area - comparative: about eight times the size of The Mall in —  The 2000 CIA World Factbook
  • Area - comparative: slightly less than 6.5 times the size of the US —  The 2000 CIA World Factbook
 

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  1. = German comparativ = Danish Swedish komparativ = French comparatif = Provencal comparativ = Spanish Portuguese Italian comparativo, from Latin comparativus, from comparatus, past participle of comparare, compare: see compare, v.
 

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