Compared to rapid transit ( or metro rail ), commuter / suburban rail has lower frequency, following a schedule rather than fixed intervals, and fewer stations spaced further apart.

Compared to an equivalent class-AB device, a class-D amplifier's lower losses permit the use of a smaller heat sink for the MOSFETs while also reducing the amount of input power required, allowing for a lower-capacity power supply design.

Compared with earlier weapons such as the Mitrailleuse, which required manual reloading, the Gatling gun was more reliable and easier to operate, and had a lower but continuous rate of fire.

Compared with water, this absorption is shifted toward slightly lower energies.

Compared to other artillery, these multiple rocket launchers deliver a devastating amount of explosives to a target area quickly, but with lower accuracy and requiring a longer time to reload.

Compared with RS-232, USB is faster, uses lower voltages, and has connectors that are simpler to connect and use.

Compared with some other carbohydrate sources, pulses have a lower glycemic index.

Compared to a single masterd vessel, all the two-masted vessels can have a lower centre of pressure in the sail plan.

Compared to old-line competitors such as Muzak, satellite radio's significantly lower price, commercial-free channel variety, and more reliable technology make it a very attractive option.

Compared to non-artists, artists tend to have higher levels of openness to experience and lower levels of conscientiousness, while scientists are more open to experience, conscientious, and higher in the confidence-dominance facets of extraversion compared to non-scientists.

Compared to modelocking, another technique for pulse generation with lasers, Q-switching leads to much lower pulse repetition rates, much higher pulse energies, and much longer pulse durations.

Compared to RISC microprocessors, the Pentium Pro, when introduced, slightly outperformed the fastest RISC microprocessors on integer performance when running the SPECint95 benchmark, but floating-point performance was significantly lower, half of some RISC microprocessors.

Compared to classical railway lines, Transrapid allows higher speeds and gradients with lower wear and tear and even lower energy consumption and maintenance needs.

Compared with nonparents, parents with children have lower levels of well-being and life satisfaction.

Compared to cheap 27 MHz, the main reason for the lower user numbers on the 934 MHz band, was its cost ( up to £ 500 for a radio ), coupled with the fact that by the time reliable Japanese equipment became available in the mid-1980s, most people had opted for the noisier but cheaper 27 MHz, or gone on to take the Radio Amateur Exam.

Compared to conventional milk production, organic milk production tends to have lower eutrophication potential per ton of milk or per hectare of farmland, because it potentially reduces leaching of nitrates ( NO < sub > 3 </ sub >< sup >−</ sup >) and phosphates ( PO < sub > 4 </ sub >< sup >−</ sup >) due to lower fertilizer application rates.

Compared to other arenas in which teams of the WNBA utilize, Mohegan Sun Arena is considerably small, with the maximum capacity ( lower and upper levels ) for a basketball game being 9, 323.

Compared with electrolytic capacitors usually used for power supply filtering at power frequency, a photoflash capacitor is designed to have lower ESR, ESL, and capacitance manufacturing tolerance, but does not need as high a working temperature.

Compared to unenriched white rice, bulgur has more fiber and protein, a lower glycemic index, and higher levels of most vitamins and minerals.

Compared to other tissues in the eye, however, the lens has considerably lower energy demands.

Compared to the M60 tank, the MBT-70 had a lower profile.

Compared to digital pianos or stage pianos, digital keyboards are usually much lower in cost, have unweighted keyboards but have a great many ancillary controls and usually feature on-board loudspeakers.

Compared to the Barbaresco zone, the Barolo zone is cooler and located on higher elevations, rising nearly above Barbaresco.

Compared to the Great White Pelican, the Dalmatian is not as tied to lowland areas and will nest in suitable wetlands at many elevations.

Compared many other Galician towns, Vigo experiences warmer summer temperatures and milder winters.

Compared with most population centres in Australia it has colder winters, especially in terms of its daytime maximum temperatures, and in summer the average ( and absolute ) maximum temperatures are also lower than in most inland centres, on account of its elevation.

Compared to Mediterranean bioclimatic divisions, the area belongs to the humid zone with cold winters.

Even Professor Arnold Toynbee, agreeing with his son, does so in these terms: `` Compared to continuing to incur a constant risk of the destruction of the human race, all other evils are lesser evils.

Compared to digital signals, analog signals are of higher density.

Compared to other grains, amaranth is unusually rich in the essential amino acid lysine Common grains such as wheat and corn are comparatively rich in amino acids that amaranth lacks ; thus, amaranth and other grains can complement each other.

Compared with most other classes of natural compounds, alkaloids are characterized by a great structural diversity and there is no uniform classification of alkaloids.

Compared with men, women are more sensitive to alcohol's harmful physical, cerebral, and mental effects.

Compared to one-to-one bartering, concerns over unequal exchanges are reduced in a barter exchange.

Compared to other primates, human breasts are proportionately large throughout adult females ' lives.

Compared to his later achievements, these works are of less importance.

Compared to other pharmacological treatments, benzodiazepines are twice as likely to lead to a relapse of the underlying condition upon discontinuation.

Compared to arcade ports, the ColecoVision did not offer many games original to the console, though a few notable releases are Smurf: Rescue in Gargamel's Castle, War Room, Illusions, and Fortune Builder, an early milestone in the style of SimCity.

Compared to its use in rugby, laterals and backward passes are generally rare in North American football, due to a much greater focus on ball control in American football strategy ; it is most commonly used as a last-minute desperation strategy or as part of a trick play.

Compared to later longships the oak planks are wide-about 250mm including laps, with less taper at bow and stern.

Compared with other cichlids, these species produce fewer but bigger eggs, and when they emerge, the fry are better developed and have a higher survivability.

Compared to pyridine, N-alkylation and N-oxidation is more difficult, and pyrimidines are also less basic: The pKa value for protonated pyrimidine is 1. 23 compared to 5. 30 for pyridine.

Compared to the differences between the variants of English, German, French, Spanish, Hindustani or Portuguese, the distinctions between the variants of Serbo-Croatian are less significant.

Compared to the United States, Canadian suburbs are considerably more dense, and land use patterns are often more mixed-use.

Compared to patents, the advantages of trade secrets are that a trade secret is not limited in time ( it " continues indefinitely as long as the secret is not revealed to the public ", whereas a patent is only in force for a specified time, after which others may freely copy the invention ), a trade secret does not imply any registration costs, has an immediate effect, does not require compliance with any formalities, and does not imply any disclosure of the invention to the public.

Compared to rotating wings, due to their high exhaust velocity, jets are comparatively inefficient in hover, but jet engines are compact and this gives advantages when much higher top speeds are needed, such as for fighters.

Compared with these effects, the changes in the distance of the earth from the sun are negligible.

Compared to a 5-repetition code, the error correcting properties of this Hadamard code are much better, yet its rate is comparable.