absolute
/ˈæb.səˌljuːt/
Dictionary
noun
- That which is independent of context-dependent interpretation, inviolate, fundamental.
"moral absolutes"
- Anything that is absolute.
- In a plane, the two imaginary circular points at infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at infinity.
- (usually capitalized) A realm which exists without reference to anything else; that which can be imagined purely by itself; absolute ego.
- (usually capitalized) The unity of spirit and nature; God.
- (usually capitalized) The whole of reality; the totality to which everything is reduced.
- A concentrated natural flower oil, used for perfumes; an alcoholic extract of a concrete.
adjective
- Free of restrictions, limitations, qualifications or conditions; unconditional.
"1658, Samuel Hoard, God[']s Love to Mankind, Manifested, by disprooving his absolute decree for their damnation"
- Free from imperfection, perfect, complete; especially, perfectly embodying a quality in its essential characteristics or to its highest degree.
"absolute purity, absolute liberty"
- Pure, free from mixture or adulteration; unmixed.
"absolute alcohol"
- Complete, utter, outright; unmitigated, not qualified or diminished in any way.
"When caught, he told an absolute lie. an absolute denial of all charges"
- Positive, certain; unquestionable.
- Certain; free from doubt or uncertainty (e.g. a person, opinion or prediction).
- Fundamental, ultimate, intrinsic; not relative; independent of references or relations to other things or standards.
"Absolute rights and duties are such as pertain to man in a state of nature as contradistinguished from relative rights and duties, or such as pertain to him in his social relations."
- Independent of arbitrary units of measurement, standards, or properties; not comparative or relative.
"absolute velocity, absolute motion, absolute position"
- (grammar) Not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence; not in a syntactical relation with other parts of a text, or qualifying the text as a whole rather than any single word in it, like "it being over" in "it being over, she left".
- As measured using an absolute value.
"absolute deviation"
- Indicating an expression that is true for all real numbers, or of all values of the variable; unconditional.
- Pertaining to a grading system based on the knowledge of the individual and not on the comparative knowledge of the group of students.
- Independent of (references to) other arts; expressing things (beauty, ideas, etc) only in one art.
"absolute music"
- Absolved; free.
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