Comparator vs. Comparison — What's the Difference?

In electronics, a comparator is a device that compares two voltages or currents and outputs a digital signal indicating which is larger. It has two analog input terminals V + {\displaystyle V_{+}\,} and V − {\displaystyle V_{-}\,} and one binary digital output V o {\displaystyle V_{\rm {o}}\,} .

The act of comparing or the process of being compared.

Any of various instruments for comparing a measured property of an object, such as its shape, color, or brightness, with a standard.

A statement or estimate of similarities and differences.

Any device for comparing a physical property of two objects, or an object with a standard.

The quality of being similar or equivalent; likeness

An electronic device that compares two voltages, currents or streams of data.

(Grammar) The modification or inflection of an adjective or adverb to denote the positive, comparative, and superlative degrees, as in English, along with the equative degree in certain other languages, such as Irish Gaelic.

(law) anything that serves comparison

The act of comparing or the state or process of being compared.

(computing) An application or program that compares prices, rates, tariffs of flights, smartphones, cars, etc.

An evaluation of the similarities and differences of one or more things relative to some other or each other.

An instrument or machine for comparing anything to be measured with a standard measure; - applied especially to a machine for comparing standards of length.

With a negation, the state of being similar or alike.

(grammar) A feature in the morphology or syntax of some languages whereby adjectives and adverbs are inflected to indicate the relative degree of the property they define exhibited by the word or phrase they modify or describe.

That to which, or with which, a thing is compared, as being equal or like; illustration; similitude.

(rhetoric) A simile.

(phrenology) The faculty of the reflective group which is supposed to perceive resemblances and contrasts.

The act of comparing; an examination of two or more objects with the view of discovering the resemblances or differences; relative estimate.

The state of being compared; a relative estimate; also, a state, quality, or relation, admitting of being compared; as, to bring a thing into comparison with another; there is no comparison between them.

That to which, or with which, a thing is compared, as being equal or like; illustration; similitude.

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.

A figure by which one person or thing is compared to another, or the two are considered with regard to some property or quality, which is common to them both; e.g., the lake sparkled like a jewel.

The faculty of the reflective group which is supposed to perceive resemblances and contrasts.

To compare.

Examining resemblances or differences

Relation based on similarities and differences

Qualities that are comparable;