- free from imperfection; complete; perfect: absolute liberty.
- not mixed or adulterated; pure: absolute alcohol.
- complete; downright: an absolute lie;an absolute denial;They made absolute fools of themselves at the party last night.
- free from restriction or limitation; not limited in any way: absolute command;absolute freedom.
- unrestrained or unlimited by a constitution, counterbalancing group, etc., in the exercise of governmental power, especially when arbitrary or despotic: an absolute monarch.
- viewed independently; not comparative or relative; intrinsic: absolute knowledge.
- positive; certain: absolute in opinion;absolute evidence.
- Grammar.
- relatively independent syntactically: the construction It being Sunday in It being Sunday, the family went to church is an absolute construction.
- (of a usually transitive verb) used without an object, as the verb give in The charity asked him to give.
- (of an adjective) having its noun understood, not expressed, as rich in The rich get richer.
- characterizing the phonological form of a word or phrase occurring by itself, not influenced by surrounding forms, as not in is not (as opposed to isn't), or will in they will (as opposed to they'll).
- Physics.
- independent of arbitrary standards or of particular properties of substances or systems: absolute humidity.
- pertaining to a system of units, as the centimeter-gram-second system, based on some primary units, especially units of length, mass, and time.
- pertaining to a measurement based on an absolute zero or unit: absolute temperature.
- noting or pertaining to the scale of a grading system based on an individual's performance considered as representing their knowledge of a given subject regardless of the performance of others in a group: The math department grades on an absolute scale.
- noting or pertaining to the highest or lowest value of a meteorological quantity recorded during a given, usually long, period of time: absolute maximum temperature.
- (of an inequality) indicating that the expression is true for all values of the variable, as x2 + 1 > 0 for all real numbers x;unconditional;
- machine-specific and requiring no translation (opposed to symbolic): absolute coding;absolute address.
- something that is not dependent upon external conditions for existence or for its specific nature, size, etc. (opposed to relative).
- the absolute,
- something that is free from any restriction or condition.
- something that is independent of some or all relations.
- something that is perfect or complete.
- (in Hegelianism) the world process operating in accordance with the absolute idea.
- complete; perfect
- free from limitations, restrictions, or exceptions; unqualified
- having unlimited authority; despotic
- undoubted; certain
- not dependent on, conditioned by, or relative to anything else; independent
- pure; unmixed
- (of a grammatical construction) syntactically independent of the main clause, as for example the construction Joking apart in the sentence Joking apart, we'd better leave now
- (of a transitive verb) used without a direct object, as the verb intimidate in the sentence His intentions are good, but his rough manner tends to intimidate
- (of an adjective) used as a noun, as for instance young and aged in the sentence The young care little for the aged
- physics
- (of a pressure measurement) not relative to atmospheric pressure
- denoting absolute or thermodynamic temperature
- maths
- (of a constant) never changing in value
- (of an inequality) unconditional
- (of a term) not containing a variable
- (of a court order or decree) coming into effect immediately and not liable to be modified; final
- (of a title to property, etc) not subject to any encumbrance or condition
- something that is absolute
- philosophy
- the ultimate basis of reality
- that which is totally unconditioned, unrestricted, pure, perfect, or complete
- (in the philosophy of Hegel) that towards which all things evolve dialectically
