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The phrase "degrees of comparison" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to the different forms of adjectives and adverbs that are used to compare different levels or degrees of a quality or characteristic. For example: - In the sentence "The weather today is hotter than yesterday," the word "hotter" is an example of the comparative degree of the adjective "hot." - In the sentence "She is the tallest student in the class," the word "tallest" is an example of the superlative degree of the adjective "tall." - In the sentence "They walked quickly, but she ran the fastest," the word "fastest" is an example of the superlative degree of the adverb "fast."
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degrees of comparison
noun
Plural of degree of comparison
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The design of the study consisted of a pre-test, a series of lessons about the degrees of comparison and a post-test.
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Adjectives, which are probably of verbal origin, are not inflected for degree of comparison and may be used as adverbs without any change of form.
The transport secretary said the new private line, to be funded by "private finance, in a form to be decided", would provide "a degree of comparison with Network Rail to say, 'can we build lines quicker and cheaper than we are at the moment?'".
Similarity measures, originally introduced to express the degree of comparison between two fuzzy sets, can be applied to digital images.
Verification is accepted as a process of comparing some article of interest with some standard and with reaching a conclusion regarding the degree of comparison.
To allow a degree of comparison between SimData and RealData, part of the former was designed to have similar characteristics to the latter in terms of acoustic conditions, i.e., reverberation time and speaker-microphone distance, and complexity of utterance content, i.e., text prompts.
Those premium increases could explain a high degree of comparison shopping by current enrollees.
The semi-structured interview guide provided a clear set of instructions for the interviewer and a degree of comparison by standardising at least some of the questions.
This captures differences in purchasing power between different countries and allows for a degree of comparison across sub-regions that would be inappropriate using official exchange rates.
This meant that all subjects experienced both treatments, and the crossover guaranteed a good degree of comparison of the two ACE-i, namely zofenopril, test drug, and ramipril, reference drug in this study.
The data were then exported into Excel and the individual maternal to paternal ratios (male/female ratios) for each zygote calculated as this measure is widely used in the field and allows for a good degree of comparison between studies.
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