comparators

Noun

comparator (plural comparators)

1. Any of various devices for comparing a physical property of two objects, or an object with a standard.
   • optical comparator
2. An electronic device that compares two voltages, currents or streams of data.
   • electrical comparator
3. Anything that serves as a comparison.
4. A thing being compared against in the PICO process; often, a diagnostic method or a treatment being compared against another.
   • The applicant is therefore complaining not of a lack of action but rather of the decision of the local authority to reduce the care package that it had hitherto been making available to her. As such, a more appropriate comparator would be the case of Watts v. The United Kingdom (dec.), no. 53586/09...2014 May 20, European Court of Human Rights, McDonald v. The United Kingdom, number 4241/12, marginal 48
5. An application or program that compares prices, rates, tariffs of flights, smartphones, cars, etc.