Speakur

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standard of comparison

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.39 in modern English

Syllables
stan-dard- of -com-par-i-son
IPA
31
Scrabble Score
20
Letters
7
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

That which something is compared to in a comparative construction.

Inflected Forms

standards of comparison (plural)

Questions

What does standard of comparison mean?
That which something is compared to in a comparative construction.

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