Definitions for absolutes

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absolutes ab·so·lute

Spelling: [ab-suh-loot, ab-suh-loot]

IPA: /ˈæb səˌlut, ˌæb səˈlut/

Absolutes is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 601 anagrams from letters in absolutes (abelosstu).

Definitions for absolutes

noun

1. something that is not dependent upon external conditions for existence or for its specific nature, size, etc. (opposed to relative).
2. 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.

adjective

1. free from imperfection; complete; perfect:
2. not mixed or adulterated; pure:
3. complete; outright:
4. free from restriction or limitation; not limited in any way:
5. unrestrained or unlimited by a constitution, counterbalancing group, etc., in the exercise of governmental power, especially when arbitrary or despotic:
6. viewed independently; not comparative or relative; ultimate; intrinsic:
7. positive; certain:
8. 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 poor in The poor are always with us. 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). Compare sandhi.
9. Physics. independent of arbitrary standards or of particular properties of substances or systems: 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:
10. Education. noting or pertaining to the scale of a grading system based on an individual's performance considered as representing his or her knowledge of a given subject regardless of the performance of others in a group: Compare curve (def 10).
11. Climatology. noting or pertaining to the highest or lowest value of a meteorological quantity recorded during a given, usually long, period of time:
12. Mathematics. (of an inequality) indicating that the expression is true for all values of the variable, as x 2 + 1 > 0 for all real numbers x; unconditional. Compare conditional (def 4).
13. Computers. machine-specific and requiring no translation (opposed to symbolic):

Origin of absolutes

1350-1400; Middle English Latin absolūtus free, unrestricted, unconditioned (past participle of absolvere to absolve), equivalent to ab- ab-

Examples for absolutes

It would be the colourless dream of an immobile plurality of absolutes.

In our society we want to believe in the absolutes of what is right and what is wrong.

The ratio of exchange is relative, but there must be absolutes behind relations.

In other words we act as if those principles were absolutes, whether we can justify it logically or not.

Whether a philosophy of absolutes is theoretically sound or unsound is none of my present concern.

Even those with the most well-trained palates cannot speak in absolutes.

So by its very nature it belongs to the class of the absolutes.

But I'm going to take you at your word and assume that those claims are absolutes.

Whosen is obviously the offspring of the other absolutes in n.

As we have seen, he dealt in absolutes: either power was given to an unlimited extent or it was withheld altogether.