absolute
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (very occasionally postpositive) Positive, certain; unquestionable; not in doubt.Examples: "Yet if the register is not to be absolute evidence of proprietorship, it is clear that some investigation of title would still be necessary."; "[...] and in the absence of other signs, or when these latter are inconclusive, it is extremely useful. But it is not, under any circumstances, absolute evidence of the syphilitic nature of a given symptom or set of symptoms."; "Unless the determined lease to which the easements relate has been registered with title absolute and the easements have been entered without qualification in the register for that title, evidence must be lodged to prove [...]"
2. (archaic) Certain; free from doubt or uncertainty (e.g. a person, opinion or prediction).Examples: "I am absolute ’twas very Cloten."; "The colour of my hair—he cannot tell, Or answers "dark," at random,—while, be sure, He's absolute on the figure, live or ten, Of my last subscription."archaic
3. (especially philosophy) Fundamental, ultimate, intrinsic; not relative; independent of references or relations to other things or standards.Examples: "the doctrine that absolute knowledge of things is possible; an absolute principle"; "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."especially
4. (physics) Independent of arbitrary units of measurement, standards, or properties; not comparative or relative.Examples: "absolute velocity, absolute motion, absolute position"; "His experiments led him to infer that the boiling point of the substance is probably below 9 degrees absolute."; "This new absolute temperature scale (also called the Kelvin scale) employs the SI unit of absolute temperature, the kelvin, […]"
5. (physics) Independent of arbitrary units of measurement, standards, or properties; not comparative or relative.
6. (physics) Independent of arbitrary units of measurement, standards, or properties; not comparative or relative.
noun (English)
1. (geometry) In a plane, the two imaginary circular points at infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at infinity.
2. (philosophy, usually capitalized, usually preceded by "the") A realm which exists without reference to anything else; that which can be imagined purely by itself; absolute ego.Examples: "Withdrawn as a Buddha he sat, watching the alien world from his perch in the absolute."capitalizedusually
3. (philosophy, usually capitalized, usually preceded by "the") The whole of reality; the totality to which everything is reduced; the unity of spirit and nature; God.capitalizedusually
4. (chemistry) A concentrated natural flower oil, used for perfumes; an alcoholic extract of a concrete.Examples: "Complete concentration in a vacuum still at low temperature results in a concentrated flower oil, free from alcohol, the so-called absolute of enfleurage. The crude absolutes of enfleurage are usually of dark color and, because of their fat content, […]"; "The main difference between these and those of indifferent quality is that the former contain flower absolutes in fairly large proportion and the latter either an insignificant quantity or […]"
noun (English)
1. (philosophy) That which is totally unconditioned, unrestricted, pure, perfect, or complete; that which can be thought of without relation to others.
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