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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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