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comparandum

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Comparandum (noun) means the thing being looked at in a comparison.

noun

The thing being looked at in a comparison.

"For the sake of evaluating the Uralic-Yukaghir comparisons in HDY, however, it is more illuminating to examine the frequency of various types of problems in the comparanda." — Ante Aikio, The Uralic-Yukaghir lexical correspondences: genetic inheritance, language contact or chance resemblance? (2014)

"The third task is to choose a suitable illustrated comparandum of the appropriate variety from a published Early Cycladic excavation which is both well preserved and substantially complete." — Colin Renfrew, 26. Selected Sculptural Fragments from the Special Deposits south at Kavos on Keros (2017)

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