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Definition absolute

Etymology

First attested around 1380. From Middle English absolut, from Middle French absolut, from Latin absol?tus (“unconditional; unfettered; completed”), perfect passive participle of absolv? (“loosen, set free, complete”), from ab (“away”) + solvo (“to loose”). Influenced in part by Old French absolu. Compare absolve.

Adjective

absolute (comparative more absolute or absoluter, superlative most absolute or absolutest)

1. Free of restrictions, limitations, qualifications or conditions; unconditional. [first attested in the late 1400s]
   1. Unrestricted by laws, a constitution, or parliamentary or judicial or other checks; (legally) unlimited in power, especially if despotic. [first attested in the late 1400s]
      1. Characteristic of an absolutist ruler: domineering, peremptory. [first attested in the mid 1500s]
2. Free from imperfection, perfect, complete; especially, perfectly embodying a quality in its essential characteristics or to its highest degree. [first attested around 1400]
3. Pure, free from mixture or adulteration; unmixed. [first attested in the mid 1500s]
4. Complete, utter, outright; unmitigated, not qualified or diminished in any way. [first attested in the late 1500s]
5. Positive, certain; unquestionable. [first attested in the early 1600s]
6. (archaic) Certain; free from doubt or uncertainty (e.g. a person, opinion or prediction). [first attested in the early 1600s]
7. (especially philosophy) Fundamental, ultimate, intrinsic; not relative; independent of references or relations to other things or standards. [first attested in the late 1700s]
8. (physics) Independent of arbitrary units of measurement, standards, or properties; not comparative or relative.
   1. Having reference to or derived in the simplest manner from the fundamental units of mass, time, and length.
   2. Relating to the absolute temperature scale (based on absolute zero); kelvin.
9. (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". [first attested around 1350 to 1470]
   1. (of a case form) Syntactically connected to the rest of the sentence in an atypical manner, or not relating to or depending on it, like in the nominative absolute or genitive absolute, accusative absolute or ablative absolute. [first attested around 1350 to 1470]
   2. (of an adjective or possessive pronoun) Lacking a modified substantive, like "hungry" in "feed the hungry". [first attested around 1350 to 1470]
   3. (of a comparative or superlative) Expressing a relative term without a definite comparison, like "older" in "an older person should be treated with respect". [first attested around 1350 to 1470]
   4. (of an adjective form) Positive; not graded (not comparative or superlative).
   5. (of a usually-transitive verb) Having no direct object, like "kill" in "if looks could kill". [first attested around 1350 to 1470]
   6. (Ireland, Wales) Being or pertaining to an inflected verb that is not preceded by any number of articles or compounded with a preverb.
10. (mathematics) As measured using an absolute value.
11. (mathematics) Indicating an expression that is true for all real numbers, or of all values of the variable; unconditional.
12. (education) Pertaining to a grading system based on the knowledge of the individual and not on the comparative knowledge of the group of students.
13. (art, music, dance) Independent of (references to) other arts; expressing things (beauty, ideas, etc) only in one art.
14. (obsolete) Absolved; free. [attested from the mid 1300s until the mid 1600s]

Noun

absolute (plural absolutes)

1. That which is independent of context-dependent interpretation, inviolate, fundamental. [First attested in the mid 19 century.]
2. Anything that is absolute. [First attested in the mid 19 century.]
3. (geometry) In a plane, the two imaginary circular points at infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at infinity.
4. (philosophy, usually capitalized) A realm which exists without reference to anything else; that which can be imagined purely by itself; absolute ego.
5. (philosophy, usually capitalized) The unity of spirit and nature; God.
6. (philosophy, usually capitalized) The whole of reality; the totality to which everything is reduced.
7. Concentrated natural flower oil, used for perfumes.

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