Language

• Comparative
  Comparative
  In grammar, the comparative is the form of an adjective or adverb which denotes the degree or grade by which a person, thing, or other entity has a property or quality greater or less in extent than that of another, and is used in this context with a subordinating conjunction, such as than,...
  
  , in the English language, a form of adjective or adverb
• Comparative case
  Comparative case
  The comparative case is a grammatical case used in the Mari language to mark a likeness to something. It is marked with the suffix -ла For example, if something were to taste like fish , the form used would be колла - 'kolla').It is also used in regard to languages, when denoting the language a...
  
  , a grammatical case used in the Mari language
• Comparative Critical Studies
  Comparative Critical Studies
  Comparative Critical Studies is the journal of the British Comparative Literature Association . It is published three times a year by Edinburgh University Press, in February, June and October...
  
  , a literary journal
• Comparative linguistics
  Comparative linguistics
  Comparative linguistics is a branch of historical linguistics that is concerned with comparing languages to establish their historical relatedness....
  
  , a method used in the study of languages
• Comparative literature
  Comparative literature
  Comparative literature is an academic field dealing with the literature of two or more different linguistic, cultural or national groups...
  
  , a method used in the study of literature
• Comparative method
  Comparative method
  In linguistics, the comparative method is a technique for studying the development of languages by performing a feature-by-feature comparison of two or more languages with common descent from a shared ancestor, as opposed to the method of internal reconstruction, which analyzes the internal...
  
  , a technique used in the study of languages
• Quantitative comparative linguistics
  Quantitative comparative linguistics
  Quantitative comparative linguistics is a branch of comparative linguistics that applies mathematical models to the problem of classifying language relatedness. This includes the use of computational phylogenetics and cladistics to define an optimal tree to represent a hypothesis about the...
  
  , a computational technique used in the study of languages

Social sciences

• Comparative education
  Comparative education
  Comparative education is a fully established academic field of study that examines education in one country by using data and insights drawn from the practises and situation in another country, or countries...
  
  , a method used in the study of education
• Comparative Effectiveness
  Comparative Effectiveness
  Comparative effectiveness research is the direct comparison of existing health care interventions to determine which work best for which patients and which pose the greatest benefits and harms...
  
  , a term from health care intervention
• Comparative psychology
  Comparative psychology
  Comparative psychology generally refers to the scientific study of the behavior and mental processes of non-human animals. However, scientists from different disciplines do not always agree on this definition...
  
  , a method used in psychology
• Comparative sociology
  Comparative sociology
  Comparative sociology generally refers to sociological analysis that involves comparison of social processes between nation-states, or across different types of society ....
  
  , a method used in sociology
• Historical comparative research
  Historical comparative research
  Historical comparative research is the study of past events and questions using methods in sociology and other social scientific research to inform the possible outcomes and answers to current events and questions. Beginning in the late 1950s, the discipline of history became more linked with...
  
  , a technique of historical sociology
• Law of comparative judgment
  Law of comparative judgment
  The law of comparative judgment was conceived by L. L. Thurstone. In modern day terminology, it is more aptly described as a model that is used to obtain measurements from any process of pairwise comparison...
  
  , a model of psychomeasurement and psychophysics

Government and law

• American Journal of Comparative Law
  American Journal of Comparative Law
  The American Journal of Comparative Law is a quarterly law journal dedicated to comparative law. It is published by the American Society of Comparative Law....
  
  , a journal
• Comparative government, a method used in political science
• Comparative law
  Comparative law
  Comparative law is the study of differences and similarities between the law of different countries. More specifically, it involves study of the different legal systems in existence in the world, including the common law, the civil law, socialist law, Islamic law, Hindu law, and Chinese law...
  
  , a method used in the study of law
• Comparative negligence
  Comparative negligence
  Comparative negligence, or non-absolute contributory negligence outside of the United States, is a partial legal defense that reduces the amount of damages that a plaintiff can recover in a negligence-based claim based upon the degree to which the plaintiff's own negligence contributed to cause...
  
  , a partial legal defense
• Comparative politics
  Comparative politics
  Comparative politics is a subfield of political science, characterized by an empirical approach based on the comparative method. Arend Lijphart argues that comparative politics does not have a substantive focus in itself, but rather a methodological one: it focuses on "the how but does not specify...
  
  , a method used in political science
• Comparative responsibility
  Comparative responsibility
  Comparative responsibility is a doctrine of tort law that compares the fault of each party in a law suit for a single injury...
  
  , a term from tort law

Biology

• Comparative anatomy
  Comparative anatomy
  Comparative anatomy is the study of similarities and differences in the anatomy of organisms. It is closely related to evolutionary biology and phylogeny .-Description:...
  
  , a technique used in the study of anatomy
• Comparative biology
  Comparative biology
  Comparative biology is a multidisciplinary approach to understanding organismic diversity that uses natural variation and disparity to elucidate phylogenetic history. Comparative biologists attempt to understand the diversity and complexity of life at all levels—from genes, to anatomy, to...
  
  , a technique of biology
• Comparative cognition
  Comparative Cognition
  Comparative cognition is the comparative study of the mechanisms and origins of cognition in various species.From a biological point of view, work is being done on the brains of fruit flies that should yield techniques precise enough to allow an understanding of the workings of the human brain on a...
  
  , a branch of biology
• Comparative genomics
  Comparative genomics
  Comparative genomics is the study of the relationship of genome structure and function across different biological species or strains. Comparative genomics is an attempt to take advantage of the information provided by the signatures of selection to understand the function and evolutionary...
  
  , a method used in genetics
• Comparative genomic hybridization
  Comparative genomic hybridization
  Comparative genomic hybridization or Chromosomal Microarray Analysis is a molecular-cytogenetic method for the analysis of copy number changes in the DNA content of a given subject's DNA and often in tumor cells....
  
  , a technique of genetics
• Comparative neuropsychology
  Comparative neuropsychology
  Comparative Neuropsychology refers to an approach used for understanding human brain functions. It involves the direct evaluation of clinical neurological populations by employing experimental methods originally developed for use with nonhuman animals....
  
  , a technique for studying the brain
• Comparative physiology
  Comparative physiology
  Comparative physiology is a subdiscipline of physiology that studies and exploits the diversity of functional characteristics of various kinds of organisms. It is closely related to evolutionary physiology and environmental physiology. Many universities offer undergraduate courses that cover...
  
  , a technique used in physiology
• Integrative and Comparative Biology
  Integrative and Comparative Biology
  Integrative and Comparative Biology is the scientific journal for the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology . Prior to volume 42 , the journal was known as American Zoologist ....
  
  , a journal
• Museum of Comparative Zoology
  Museum of Comparative Zoology
  The Museum of Comparative Zoology, full name "The Louis Agassiz Museum of Comparative Zoology", often abbreviated simply to "MCZ", is a zoology museum located on the grounds of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is one of three museums which collectively comprise the Harvard Museum...
  
  , at Harvard University
• Phylogenetic comparative methods
  Phylogenetic comparative methods
  Phylogenetic comparative methods use information on the evolutionary relationships of organisms to compare species...
  
  , techniques used in the study of phylogeny

Cultural studies

• Comparative cultural studies
  Comparative cultural studies
  Comparative cultural studies is a contextual approach to the study of culture in a global and intercultural context. The focus of the studies is placed on the theory, method, and application of the study process rather than on the "what" of the object of study.In comparative cultural studies,...
  
  , the study of cultures from a cross-cultural point of view
• Comparative history
  Comparative history
  Comparative history is the comparison of different societies which existed during the same time period or shared similar cultural conditions. The comparative history of societies emerged as an important specialty among intellectuals in the Enlightenment in the 18th century, as typified by...
  
  , a technique used in the study of history
• Comparative mythology
  Comparative mythology
  Comparative mythology is the comparison of myths from different cultures in an attempt to identify shared themes and characteristics. Comparative mythology has served a variety of academic purposes...
  
  , a method used in the study of mythology
• Comparative religion
  Comparative religion
  Comparative religion is a field of religious studies that analyzes the similarities and differences of themes, myths, rituals and concepts among the world's religions...
  
  , a method used in the study of religion
• Comparative research
  Comparative research
  Comparative research is a research methodology in the social sciences that aims to make comparisons across different countries or cultures. A major problem in comparative research is that the data sets in different countries may not use the same categories, or define categories differently .-...
  
  , a cross-cultural technique
• List of Muslim comparative religionists, a who's who of muslims engaged in comparative islamic studies
• Studies in Comparative Religion
  Studies in Comparative Religion
  Studies in Comparative Religion was a quarterly academic journal published from 1963–1987 that contained essays on the spiritual practices and religious symbolism of the world's religions. The journal was notable for the number of prominent Perennialists who contributed to it...
  
  , a journal

Philosophy

• Comparative contextual analysis
  Comparative contextual analysis
  Comparative Contextual Analysis is a methodology for comparative research where contextual interrogation precedes any analysis of similarity and difference. It is a thematic process directed and designed to explore relationships of agency rather than institutional or structural frameworks. See...
  
  , an epistemological method
• Comparative phenomenology, a method of philosophy
• Qualitative comparative analysis
  Qualitative comparative analysis
  Qualitative Comparative Analysis is a technique, developed by Charles Ragin in 1987, for solving the problems that are caused by making causal inferences on the basis of only a small number of cases...
  
  , a technique of logic

Economics

• Comparative advantage
  Comparative advantage
  In economics, the law of comparative advantage says that two countries will both gain from trade if, in the absence of trade, they have different relative costs for producing the same goods...
  
  , a law of economics
• Comparative advertising
  Comparative advertising
  Comparative advertising is an advertisement in which a particular product, or service, specifically mentions a competitor by name for the express purpose of showing why the competitor is inferior to the product naming it...
  
  , a marketing technique
• Comparative economic systems
  Comparative economic systems
  Comparative economic systems is the subfield of economics dealing with the comparative study of different systems of economic organization, such as capitalism, socialism, feudalism and the mixed economy...
  
  , a method of economics
• Comparative statics
  Comparative statics
  In economics, comparative statics is the comparison of two different economic outcomes, before and after a change in some underlying exogenous parameter....
  
  , a method of economics

See also

• The Comparative Method or Comparative Measurement in art is described in Atelier (art).
• Comparative analysis
  Comparative analysis
  Comparative analysis is type of analysis used in various of sciences and in different modifications:Criminology and forensics:* Comparative contextual analysis - criminology* Comparative bullet-lead analysis - forensicsSociology:...
  
  
• Comparator
  Comparator
  In electronics, a comparator is a device that compares two voltages or currents and switches its output to indicate which is larger. They are commonly used in devices such as Analog-to-digital converters .- Input voltage range :...
  
  
• Comparison (disambiguation)