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Absolute
AB'SOLUTE, a. [L. absolutus. See Absolve.]
1. Literally, in a general sense, free, independent of any thing extraneous. Hence,
2. Complete in itself; positive; as an absolute declaration.
3. Unconditional, as an absolute promise.
4. Existing independent of any other cause, as God is absolute.
5. Unlimited by extraneous power or control, as an absolute government or prince.
6. Not relative, as absolute space.
In grammar, the case absolute, is when a word or member of a sentence is not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence in government.
Absolute equation, in astronomy, is the aggregate of the
optic and eccentric equations. The apparent inequality of a planet's motion in its orbit, arising from is unequal distances from the earth at different times, is called its optic equation; the eccentric inequality is caused by the uniformity of the planet's motion, in an elliptical orbit, which, for that reason, appears not to be uniform.
Absolute numbers, in algebra, are such as have no letters annexed, as 2a+36=48. the two latter numbers are absolute or pure.
Absolute space, in physics, is space considered without relation to any other object.
Absolute gravity, in philosophy, is that property in bodies by which they are said to weigh so much, without regard to circumstances of modification, and this is always as the quantity of matter they contain.
absolute appears in definitions for these words:
Ablative Absolute Absolutely Abstractly Action Actual Administer Adultery Allodium Arbitrarily Arbitrary Archpresbytery Arminian Augustinians Autocrat Autocrator Autocratrix Bountihede But Categorical Command Commonweal Comparative Comparatively Conditional Conditionally Congeal Decemvir Decemvirate Despot Despotic Despoticalness Despotism Determination Dictator Dictatorial Dictature Dominator Drive During Emotion Exacerbation Except Excommunication Fee Flat Fortunate Hold Illimitedness Impatience Impatronization Imponderability Inconditional Inconditonate Indispensable Indispensableness Indissoluble Induce Infatuate Infusible Injunction Intrinsically Involution Irrespective King Law Mere Mistake Monarch Monarchy Mortgage Notwithstanding Obduracy Opinion Patient Pentecost Peremptorily Peremptoriness Peremptory Perfection Perjury Positive Positively Possessing Prescience Preterperfect Principal Problem Promise Provided Pure Purely Pureness Reality Rebound Recovery Relative Relatively Respective Respectively Sheerly Since Slavery Sovereignly Stark Subjugate Subjugated Subjugating Subjugation Sublime Successor Suveranty Tenure Terminatively Theme Time Tippler Tyranny Unconditional Unessential Usurpation Utter Vacuum Vassaled Velocity Whither
Ablative Absolute Absolutely Abstractly Action Actual Administer Adultery Allodium Arbitrarily Arbitrary Archpresbytery Arminian Augustinians Autocrat Autocrator Autocratrix Bountihede But Categorical Command Commonweal Comparative Comparatively Conditional Conditionally Congeal Decemvir Decemvirate Despot Despotic Despoticalness Despotism Determination Dictator Dictatorial Dictature Dominator Drive During Emotion Exacerbation Except Excommunication Fee Flat Fortunate Hold Illimitedness Impatience Impatronization Imponderability Inconditional Inconditonate Indispensable Indispensableness Indissoluble Induce Infatuate Infusible Injunction Intrinsically Involution Irrespective King Law Mere Mistake Monarch Monarchy Mortgage Notwithstanding Obduracy Opinion Patient Pentecost Peremptorily Peremptoriness Peremptory Perfection Perjury Positive Positively Possessing Prescience Preterperfect Principal Problem Promise Provided Pure Purely Pureness Reality Rebound Recovery Relative Relatively Respective Respectively Sheerly Since Slavery Sovereignly Stark Subjugate Subjugated Subjugating Subjugation Sublime Successor Suveranty Tenure Terminatively Theme Time Tippler Tyranny Unconditional Unessential Usurpation Utter Vacuum Vassaled Velocity Whither
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