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  • adjective Not comparable.

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non- +‎ comparable

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Examples

  • Still, an ONS representative said earlier that noncomparable and nonseasonally adjusted data show youth unemployment was above one million in 1984, 1985 and 1986.

    Youth Hit as U.K. Jobless Rate Rises Ilona Billington 2011

  • For example, the rat thyroid system has been well characterized, but because rats and humans may metabolize certain toxicants differently (and thus, for example, rats may receive noncomparable doses of hydrophobic toxicants such as PCBs via breast milk), it is not certain how confidently researchers can extrapolate rat results to humans.

    Environmental effects on the thyroid 2009

  • The latest results included a per-share gain of about three cents for two noncomparable items while the prior-year quarter included a nine-cent gain related to the sale of the Faconnable apparel-and-retail line.

    Nordstrom, Kohl's Net Goes on Markdown 2008

  • Yet some things are best done nationally – notably creating uniform standards and tests in place of today's patchwork of uneven expectations and noncomparable assessments.

    Twenty-Five Years Later, A Nation Still at Risk 2008

  • Excluding "outliers," commodity pairs where the implicit price-quality differential exceeds 100 percent (which are simply noncomparable pairs and are not likely to reflect what either the BLS or we had in mind by the concept of "quality change"), the number shrinks to a mere 0.3 percent.

    The Cost of Living: An Exchange Gordon, Robert J. 1997

  • Experts have cautioned against applying this false analogy, inferring wrong conclusions from noncomparable contexts.

    Executive Economics SHLOMO MAITAL 1994

  • Experts have cautioned against applying this false analogy, inferring wrong conclusions from noncomparable contexts.

    Executive Economics SHLOMO MAITAL 1994

  • And then as a result, you can still have some of the growth coming as a result of the noncomparable beginning with a phase back in on maintenance.

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  • CBS Television Stations revenues decreased 7%, driven by the impact of these two noncomparable items as well as lost revenues from the NBA lockout during 2011.

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  • Approximately half of the dollar increase was due to noncomparable receipts versus the prior year, specifically, $15 million of early fall receipts in the final week of July, $9 million more in transit, and $6 million of fabric and BHLDN inventories.

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