Definition of absolute
- 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.
- a. - Complete in itself; perfect; consummate; faultless; as,
absolute perfection; absolute beauty.
- 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.
- a. - Loosed from, or unconnected by, dependence on any other
being; self-existent; self-sufficing.
- a. - Capable of being thought or conceived by itself alone;
unconditioned; non-relative.
- a. - Positive; clear; certain; not doubtful.
- a. - Authoritative; peremptory.
- a. - Pure; unmixed; as, absolute alcohol.
- a. - Not immediately dependent on the other parts of the
sentence in government; as, the case absolute. See Ablative absolute,
under Ablative.
- n. - In a plane, the two imaginary circular points at
infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at
infinity.
- 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.
- a. - Complete in itself; perfect; consummate; faultless; as,
absolute perfection; absolute beauty.
- 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.
- a. - Loosed from, or unconnected by, dependence on any other
being; self-existent; self-sufficing.
- a. - Capable of being thought or conceived by itself alone;
unconditioned; non-relative.
- a. - Positive; clear; certain; not doubtful.
- a. - Authoritative; peremptory.
- a. - Pure; unmixed; as, absolute alcohol.
- a. - Not immediately dependent on the other parts of the
sentence in government; as, the case absolute. See Ablative absolute,
under Ablative.
- n. - In a plane, the two imaginary circular points at
infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at
infinity.