ABSOLUTE
\ˈabsəlˌuːt], \ˈabsəlˌuːt], \ˈa_b_s_ə_l_ˌuː_t]\
Definitions of ABSOLUTE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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something that is conceived to be absolute; something that does not depends on anything else and is beyond human control; "no mortal being can influence the absolute"
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perfect or complete or pure; "absolute loyalty"; "absolute silence"; "absolute truth"; "absolute alcohol"
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without conditions or limitations; "a total ban"
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not limited by law; "an absolute monarch"
By Princeton University
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something that is conceived to be absolute; something that does not depends on anything else and is beyond human control; "no mortal being can influence the absolute"
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perfect or complete or pure; "absolute loyalty"; "absolute silence"; "absolute truth"; "absolute alcohol"
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without conditions or limitations; "a total ban"
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not limited by law; "an absolute monarch"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Loosed from any limitation or condition; uncontrolled; unrestricted; unconditional; as, absolute authority, monarchy, sovereignty, an absolute promise or command; absolute power; an absolute monarch.
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Loosed from, or unconnected by, dependence on any other being; self-existent; self-sufficing.
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Capable of being thought or conceived by itself alone; unconditioned; non-relative.
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Positive; clear; certain; not doubtful.
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Authoritative; peremptory.
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Pure; unmixed; as, absolute alcohol.
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Not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence in government; as, the case absolute. See Ablative absolute, under Ablative.
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In a plane, the two imaginary circular points at infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at infinity.
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Not adulterated; pure.
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Viewed apart from modifying influences or without comparison with other objects; actual; real; - opposed to relative and comparative; as, absolute motion; absolute time or space.
By Oddity Software
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Loosed from any limitation or condition; uncontrolled; unrestricted; unconditional; as, absolute authority, monarchy, sovereignty, an absolute promise or command; absolute power; an absolute monarch.
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Loosed from, or unconnected by, dependence on any other being; self-existent; self-sufficing.
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Capable of being thought or conceived by itself alone; unconditioned; non-relative.
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Positive; clear; certain; not doubtful.
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Authoritative; peremptory.
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Pure; unmixed; as, absolute alcohol.
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Not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence in government; as, the case absolute. See Ablative absolute, under Ablative.
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In a plane, the two imaginary circular points at infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at infinity.
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Not adulterated; pure.
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Viewed apart from modifying influences or without comparison with other objects; actual; real; - opposed to relative and comparative; as, absolute motion; absolute time or space.
By Noah Webster.
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Not adulterated; pure.
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Absolutely.
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Absoluteness.
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Complete; perfect.
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Not limited; unrestricted; independent.
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Positive; entire; total.
By James Champlin Fernald
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Free as to condition; perfect; fixed; despotic: applied to a government in which the ruler s unrestrained by any law: unlimited.
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Absolutely.
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Absoluteness.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Absolutely.
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Absoluteness.
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Free from limits or conditions: complete: unlimited: free from mixture: considered without reference to other things: unconditioned, unalterable: unrestricted by constitutional checks (said of a government): (gram.) not immediately dependent.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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