Word Meanings - INTERCOMPARISON - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Mutual comparison of corresponding parts.

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• CORRESPOND
  1. To be like something else in the dimensions and arrangement of its parts; -- followed by with or to; as, concurring figures correspond with each other throughout. None of them correspond to the Shakespearean type. J. A. Symonds.
• CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL
  A school that teaches by correspondence, the instruction being based on printed instruction sheets and the recitation papers written by the student in answer to the questions or requirements of these sheets. In the broadest sense of the
• CORRESPONDINGLY
  In a corresponding manner; conformably.
• COMPARISON
  The modification, by inflection or otherwise, which the adjective and adverb undergo to denote degrees of quality or quantity; as, little, less, least, are examples of comparison. (more info) 1. The act of comparing; an examination of two or more
• MUTUAL
  1. Reciprocally acting or related; reciprocally receiving and giving; reciprocally given and received; reciprocal; interchanged; as, a mutual love, advantage, assistance, aversion, etc. Conspiracy and mutual promise. Sir T. More. Happy
• CORRESPONDENCY
  See CLARKE
• CORRESPONDENT
  Suitable; adapted; fit; corresponding; congruous; conformable; in accord or agreement; obedient; willing. Action correspondent or repugnant unto the law. Hooker. As fast the correspondent passions rise. Thomson. I will be correspondent to command.
• MUTUALITY
  Reciprocity of consideration. Wharton. (more info) 1. The quality of correlation; reciprocation; interchange; interaction; interdependence.
• CORRESPONDENTLY
  In a a corresponding manner; conformably; suitably.
• MUTUALLY
  In a mutual manner.
• CORRESPONDING
  1. Answering; conformable; agreeing; suiting; as, corresponding numbers. 2. Carrying on intercourse by letters. Corresponding member of a society, one residing at a distance, who has been invited to correspond with the society, and aid in carrying
• MUTUALISM
  The doctrine of mutual dependence as the condition of individual and social welfare. F. Harrison. H. Spencer. Mallock.
• CORRESPONDENCE
  1. Friendly intercourse; reciprocal exchange of civilities; especially, intercourse between persons by means of letters. Holding also good correspondence with the other great men in the state. Bacon. To facilitate correspondence between one part
• INCORRESPONDENCE; INCORRESPONDENCY
  Want of correspondence; disagreement; disproportion.
• INTERCOMPARISON
  Mutual comparison of corresponding parts.
• DISCORRESPONDENT
  Incongruous. W. Montagu.
• INTERMUTUAL
  Mutual. Daniel. -- In`ter*mu"tu*al*ly, adv.
• INCORRESPONDING
  Not corresponding; disagreeing. Coleridge.
• TRANSMUTUAL
  Reciprocal; commutual. Coleridge.
• COMMUTUAL
  Mutual; reciprocal; united. There, with commutual zeal, we both had strove. Pope.