comparable
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (often with to) Able to be compared (to).Examples: "An elephant is comparable in size to a double-decker bus."; "You can't say that robbing a bank is like pickpocketing. The two are just not comparable."; "The firebox married to Britannia's boiler is not, however, in the Doncaster tradition, notwithstanding that it is comparable in dimensions to that of the "V2.""often
2. (often with to) Similar (to); like.Examples: "Furthermore, this increase in risk is comparable to the risk of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene, another solvent, which has the well-known property of causing this type of cancer."often
3. (mathematics) Constituting a pair in a particular partial order.Examples: "Six and forty-two are comparable in the divides order, but six and nine are not."
4. (grammar, of an adjective) Having comparative and superlative forms.Examples: ""Big" is a comparable adjective because it can take the forms "bigger" and "biggest"; "unique" and "amazing", in contrast, are not comparable adjectives."Synonyms: gradable
Definition source: Wiktionary