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adjective 
  1. That which may be compared (to), that which is similar (to).
An elephant is in size to a double-decker bus.
You can't say that robbing a bank is like pickpocketing"the two are just not .
  1. (mathematics) Constituting a pair in a particular partial order.
Six and forty-two are in the divides order, but six and nine are not.
  1. (grammar) of an adjective, able to be compared.
"Big" is a adjective, since it can take the forms "bigger" and "biggest"; but "unique" is not .
Translations: 
  • Dutch: vergelijkbaar
  • German: vergleichbar
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