Word Finder - absolute

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That which is independent of context-dependent interpretation, inviolate, fundamental.

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moral absolutes

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Anything that is absolute.

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

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(usually capitalized) A realm which exists without reference to anything else; that which can be imagined purely by itself; absolute ego.

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(usually capitalized) The unity of spirit and nature; God.

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(usually capitalized) The whole of reality; the totality to which everything is reduced.

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A concentrated natural flower oil, used for perfumes; an alcoholic extract of a concrete.

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Free of restrictions, limitations, qualifications or conditions; unconditional.

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1658, Samuel Hoard, God[']s Love to Mankind, Manifested, by disprooving his absolute decree for their damnation

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Free from imperfection, perfect, complete; especially, perfectly embodying a quality in its essential characteristics or to its highest degree.

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absolute purity, absolute liberty

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Pure, free from mixture or adulteration; unmixed.

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absolute alcohol

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Complete, utter, outright; unmitigated, not qualified or diminished in any way.

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When caught, he told an absolute lie.   an absolute denial of all charges

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Positive, certain; unquestionable.

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Certain; free from doubt or uncertainty (e.g. a person, opinion or prediction).

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Fundamental, ultimate, intrinsic; not relative; independent of references or relations to other things or standards.

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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.

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Independent of arbitrary units of measurement, standards, or properties; not comparative or relative.

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absolute velocity, absolute motion, absolute position

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(grammar) Not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence; not in a syntactical relation with other parts of a text, or qualifying the text as a whole rather than any single word in it, like "it being over" in "it being over, she left".

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As measured using an absolute value.

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absolute deviation

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Indicating an expression that is true for all real numbers, or of all values of the variable; unconditional.

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Pertaining to a grading system based on the knowledge of the individual and not on the comparative knowledge of the group of students.

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Independent of (references to) other arts; expressing things (beauty, ideas, etc) only in one art.

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absolute music

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Absolved; free.

Jonny has the key to absolute power.

A sixth group was talking absolute nonsense.

He'll have to trust you to maintain absolute secrecy.

He loosened his collar and tie out of absolute necessity.

She has a large, generous sympathy and absolute fairness of temper.

Dean half-felt his way across the parking lot in his bare feet, cursing the pebbles and splashing through ankle-deep puddles at curbside before stumbling into the absolute darkness of the beach-side path.

It was as if rescuing these long forgotten remains from oblivion would somehow prove such a resurrection from years of absolute dark and loneliness would make anything possible.

What part of giving an Other absolute power sounded reasonable?

Absolute power for learning mercy.

The Code is not an absolute for deities but a relationship.

If this be overlooked, a wrong impression may be derived as to the absolute amplitudes of the changes.

A comfortable bed replaced the cot utilized in Peabody and absolute darkness proved more conducive to sleep than the leaked light that often snuck into our old quarters.

He maintains the unity and freedom of the soul, and the absolute obligation of the moral law.

Maybe even welcome it, provided there was absolute confidentiality.

There's absolute confidentiality in what we do.

I'd tell her real story, as much as she'd allow, while still maintaining her absolute privacy.

It is not so important that many should be as good as you, as that there be some absolute goodness somewhere; for that will leaven the whole lump.

We each understood the drop-dead importance of absolute privacy.

So again, in the case of the Paris curves, the absolute value of the diurnal range in summer was much greater for the Eiffel Tower than for the Bureau Central, but the mean voltage was 2150 at the former station and only 134 at the latter.

One hypothesis supplants the various principles of life; the rule of absolute mechanism is as complete in the animal as in the cosmos.

Two clear and distinct ideas, it seems, produce an absolute mystery.

Absolute continuity of motion is not comprehensible to the human mind.

Helium alone refuses to be absorbed, and it can be pumped off from the charcoal in a state of absolute purity.

She writes with fair speed and absolute sureness.

Howie continued to tell all of us exactly what we did, relating our deeds and writings with absolute perfection.

I realized those receiving our tips lacked a reason to share our absolute confidence.

Why is it so absolute?

The laws from the time-before-time are absolute.

You put them both in danger and gave an Other absolute power.

Further they are entirely individual, and can in no way be described as constituting absolute objective knowledge.

One may almost doubt if the wisest man has learned anything of absolute value by living.

With the power out, the darkness was absolute.

Nothing is said of an absolute freedom of the will; the will is, on the contrary, subordinated to the reason in so far as it is supposed to choose what reason pronounces good.

During his reign the royal authority became more severe and more absolute than ever.

To great ability, wide sympathies, and undoubted patriotism he added absolute honesty, that rare quality in a vizier, for he left office as poor as when he entered it.

Razin proclaimed that his object was to root out the boyars and all officials, to level all ranks and dignities, and establish Cossackdom, with its corollary of absolute equality, throughout Muscovy.

After all care has been taken in laying and pointing, in accordance with the rules of theory and practice, absolute certainty of hitting the same spot every time is unattainable, as causes of error exist which cannot be eliminated, such as variations in the air and in the muzzle-velocity, and also in the steadiness of the shot in flight.

Try the pasta with broccoli rabe and sausage, it's an absolute delight.

Our credibility had to be earned each time and be absolute.

We can do more good by engaging Death from some place other than where she has absolute power.  She has no reason to negotiate with us.

Considering the circumstances in which General Roca assumed office, it must be admitted that he showed great moderation and used the practically absolute power that he possessed to establish a strong central government, and to initiate a national policy, which aimed at furthering the prosperity and development of the whole country.

To secure election a candidate must at the first voting poll an absolute majority and a number of votes equal to one-fourth of the number of electors.

After attempting to govern under these conditions for nearly two years, the prince, with the consent of the tsar Alexander III., assumed absolute power (May 9, 1881), and a suspension of the ultra-democratic constitution for a period of seven years was voted by a specially convened assembly (July 13).

Leibnitz, in accord with the distinctive principle of his philosophy, affirmed the absolute independence of mind and body as distinct monads, the parallelism of their functions in life being due to the pre-established harmony.

This view ignores that man has ideals of absolute value, truth, beauty, goodness, that he consciously communes with the God who is in all, and through all, and over all, that it is his mind which recognizes the vastness of the universe and thinks its universal law, and that the mind which perceives and conceives cannot be less, but must be greater than the object of its knowledge and thought.

John from the first regarded his son with jealousy, which after his second marriage with Joan Henriquez, and under her influence, grew into absolute hatred.

The convention was attended by Sir George Grey, who was publicly welcomed to the colony by New Zealanders resident in Sydney, and by other admirers, and his reception was an absolute ovation.

He punished the rebellious clergy severely, and ruled the church with an absolute hand till his departure from England in 1218.

All trade and industry were in 1921 at an absolute standstill owing to Bolshevism.

The aim is good, however, only when reason guides it for the benefit of the majority, but that is not absolute good.