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comparator

1 6.7

A thing like a word or tool that shows how two things differ

noun
/kəmˈpærətər/

: comparador

Patients with CrCl 50 to 80 mL/min had fewer major bleeding episodes with apixaban than comparator drugs, including aspirin, warfarin, and enoxaparin.

Examples

Fever is not a major symptom associated with chronic rhinosinusitis, and therefore it served as a good control comparator.

Academic text (2006)
Other studies should also expand the data to include other comparator groups within the university and other colleges and schools of pharmacy.

Academic text (2014)
The choice of comparators is appropriate as vancomycin/linezolid is effective for patients hospitalized with suspected gram-positive SSSIs.

Academic text (2014)
The teacher used a comparator to help students examine the differences between the two historical documents.
When testing the effectiveness of the new drug, researchers used a comparator to assess its performance against the standard treatment.
An accurate comparator is essential for measuring the resemblance between the two software programs.

Synonyms

discriminator

vscomparator

3 7.9

A person or thing that notices differences between similar objects

checks both how items differ and how they are alike

matcher

vscomparator

3.7

A person or tool that finds things that look alike

checks both differences and likenesses rather than only finding similarity

Surface Forms

comparator singular

comparators plural

Morphology

comparator = compare (transparent) = compare + or

Standard nominal/agentive formation from 'compare' denoting a thing or tool that compares; meaning is directly derivable.

Etymology

The word comparator comes from the verb compare, which means 'put together to see differences', so a comparator can be a word or tool that helps show how two things are similar or different, like the word 'than' in grammar.