A smaller piece
A broadcast domain is a smaller piece of a computer network, with boundaries defined by routers and other higher-layer devices.
https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/b/broadoma.htm
Please explain to me the use of comparative form "a smaller piece".
if we use "a small piece", would the sentence be grammatically correct and still mean the same?
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Jigneshbharati I f we use "a small piece", would the sentence be grammatically correct and still mean the same? Yes. "smaller" merely emphasizes that a broadcast domain is smaller than a whole computer network.
- Jigneshbharati I f we use "a small piece", would the sentence be grammatically correct and still mean the same?
- Yes.
- "smaller" merely emphasizes that a broadcast domain is smaller than a whole computer network.
- The broadcast domain is "the smaller" of the two; the computer network is "the larger" of the two.
- Whenever there are two entities to speak about and they are of different sizes, one is "the small er" (the small one) and the other is "the larg er" (the large one).
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JigneshbharatiIf we use "a small piece", would the sentence be grammatically correct and still mean the same?
Yes. "smaller" merely emphasizes that a broadcast domain is smaller than a whole computer network. The broadcast domain is "the smaller" of the two; the computer network is "the larger" of the two.
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