as compared with

Native barium sulphate or barite, -- so called because of its high specific gravity as compared with other non-metallic minerals.

so called in allusion to its feeble magnetism, as compared with magnetite. a

-- used specifically to designate those compounds in which palladium has a lower valence as compared with palladic compounds.

as in superimpose, supersede, supernatural, superabundance. A prefix formerly much used to denote that the ingredient to the name of which it was prefixed was present in a large, or unusually large, proportion as compared with the other ingredients