direct comparison
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdirectandcomparison
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direct
adjective
uk/daɪˈrekt/us/daɪˈrekt/
going in a straight line towards somewhere or someone without stopping or ...
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comparison
noun[C or U]
uk/kəmˈpær.ɪ.sən/us/kəmˈper.ɪ.sən/
the act of comparing two or more people ...
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(Definition ofdirectandcomparisonfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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What is needed, therefore, is adirectcomparisonof legislative and judicial rulemaking, given that the original rule cannot be left in place.
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No models have afforded adirectcomparisonof the outcome of the same damage carried out prior to versus following the training process.
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For selected patient groups, however, it is difficult to make adirectcomparisonof the two methods of surgery and catheter occlusion.
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But these are less amenable todirectcomparisonwith existing theories and are therefore not discussed in such detail here.
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Directcomparisonof them using homonyms is difficult, since the two theories make very similar predictions.
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Proportion correct scores were used in the analysis to permit adirectcomparisonof the inflected and derived items.
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This experiment makes adirectcomparisonbetween responses to simulated translational and rotational optic flow.
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This allowsdirectcomparisonof effects between the two experiments.
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The cases of parallel and random angular orientation are shown in the same figure to allow adirectcomparison.
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We decided to retain the original subscripts on the functions f4 and f5 to allowdirectcomparisonwith the original paper.
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Directcomparisonof free energies from force unfolding experiments with bulk methods has not been done.
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At the same time, the complexity of pension plans and the diversity of plan features and benefits can makedirectcomparisonbetween pension plans difficult.
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For identification anddirectcomparison, a symbol denoting change is affiliated with subject number when appropriate.
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Figure 4 provides adirectcomparisonof the relative populations of excited states for the two systems.
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Because arthropods in the understorey and canopy were sampled differently, we did not attempt adirectcomparisonbetween densities in the two vegetative layers.
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