Meaning of Absolute

English Translation from English to English dictionary online for the word Absolute

1. 1
   a.

   Loosed from any limitation or condition; uncontrolled; unrestricted; unconditional; as, absolute authority, monarchy, sovereignty, an absolute promise or command; absolute power; an absolute monarch.

2. 2
   a.

   Complete in itself; perfect; consummate; faultless; as, absolute perfection; absolute beauty.

3. 3
   a.

   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.

4. 4
   a.

   Loosed from, or unconnected by, dependence on any other being; self-existent; self-sufficing.

5. 5
   a.

   Capable of being thought or conceived by itself alone; unconditioned; non-relative.

6. 6
   a.

   Positive; clear; certain; not doubtful.

7. 7
   a.

   Authoritative; peremptory.

8. 8
   a.

   Pure; unmixed; as, absolute alcohol.

9. 9
   a.

   Not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence in government; as, the case absolute. See Ablative absolute, under Ablative.

10. 10
    n.

    In a plane, the two imaginary circular points at infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at infinity.

11. 11
    a.

    Loosed from any limitation or condition; uncontrolled; unrestricted; unconditional; as, absolute authority, monarchy, sovereignty, an absolute promise or command; absolute power; an absolute monarch.

12. 12
    a.

    Complete in itself; perfect; consummate; faultless; as, absolute perfection; absolute beauty.

13. 13
    a.

    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.

14. 14
    a.

    Loosed from, or unconnected by, dependence on any other being; self-existent; self-sufficing.

15. 15
    a.

    Capable of being thought or conceived by itself alone; unconditioned; non-relative.

16. 16
    a.

    Positive; clear; certain; not doubtful.

17. 17
    a.

    Authoritative; peremptory.

18. 18
    a.

    Pure; unmixed; as, absolute alcohol.

19. 19
    a.

    Not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence in government; as, the case absolute. See Ablative absolute, under Ablative.

20. 20
    n.

    In a plane, the two imaginary circular points at infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at infinity.