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Meaning:

Adjective:

  • Capable of being thought or conceived by itself alone; unconditioned; non-relative.
  • chemistry Pure; unmixed; as, ''absolute'' alcohol.
  • Complete in itself; perfect; consummate; faultless.
  • grammar Not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence in government; as, the case ''absolute''. (See ablative absolute.)
  • Loosed from any limitation or condition; uncontrolled; unrestricted; unconditional; as, ''absolute'' authority, monarchy, sovereignty, an ''absolute'' promise or command.
  • Loosed from, or unconnected by, dependence on any other being; self-existent; self-sufficing.
  • rare Authoritative; peremptory.
  • rare Positive; clear; certain; not doubtful.
  • Viewed apart from modifying influences or without comparison with other objects; actual; real; ? opposed to ''relative'' and compar; as, ''absolute'' motion; ''absolute'' time or space.

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Noun:

  • geometry In a plane, the two imaginary circular points at infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at infinity.
  • Philosophy the ultimate basis of reality.
  • That which is independent of context-dependent interpretation, inviolate, fundamental.
  • that which is totally unconditioned, unrestricted, pure, perfect, or complete.

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