9. absolute (of a usu. transitive verb) used without an object, as give in Please give generously.
10. absolute (of an adjective or possessive pronoun) used alone, with the noun that is modified understood but not expressed, as hungry in to feed the hungry or mine in Take mine.
11. absolute Physics.
12. absolute independent of arbitrary standards or of particular properties of substances or systems: absolute humidity.
13. absolute pertaining to a system of units, as the centimeter-gram-second system, based on some primary units, esp. units of length, mass, and time.
15. absolute Math. (of an inequality) indicating that the expression is true for all values of the variable, as x2+ 1 &whence; 0 for all realnumbers x.
20. absolute something that is perfect or complete.
Etymology: (1350–1400; ME < L absolūtus complete, finished, unqualified, ptp. of absolvere to release; see absolve)
Definition of 'Absolute'
Princeton's WordNet
1. (adj)absolute something that is conceived or that exists independently and not in relation to other things; something that does not depend on anything else and is beyond human control; something that is not relative "no mortal being can influence the absolute"
2. (adj)absolute perfect or complete or pure "absolute loyalty"; "absolute silence"; "absolute truth"; "absolute alcohol"
3. (adj)absolute, downright, out-and-out(a), rank(a), right-down, sheer(a) complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers "absolute freedom"; "an absolute dimwit"; "a downright lie"; "out-and-out mayhem"; "an out-and-out lie"; "a rank outsider"; "many right-down vices"; "got the job through sheer persistence"; "sheer stupidity"
4. (adj)absolute not limited by law "an absolute monarch"
5. (adj)absolute expressing finality with no implication of possiblechange "an absolute guarantee to respect the nation's authority"
6. (adj)absolute, infrangible, inviolable not capable of being violated or infringed "infrangible human rights"
3. (adj)Absolute viewed apart from modifying influences or without comparison with other objects; actual; real; -- opposed to relative and comparative; as, absolute motion; absolutetime or space
4. (adj)Absolute loosed from, or unconnected by, dependence on any other being; self-existent; self-sufficing
5. (adj)Absolute capable of beingthought or conceived by itself alone; unconditioned; non-relative
6. (adj)Absolute positive; clear; certain; not doubtful
9. (adj)Absolute not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence in government; as, the case absolute. See Ablative absolute, under Ablative
1. Absolute adj. In quantities it may be defined as referring to fixed units of quantity, and it is opposed to "relative," which merely refers to the relation of several things to each other. Thus the relativeresistance of one wire may be n times that of another; its absoluteresistancemight be 5 ohms, when the absoluteresistance of the secondwire would be 5 ohms. A galvanometer gives absolute readings if it is graduated to read directly amperes or volts; if not so graduated, it may by "calibration" q. v. be made to do practically the samething.
Definitions of Absolute 
Afrikaans: absoluut
Arabic: تَام، كَامِل
Bulgarian: пълен
Brazilian: absoluto
Czech: absolutní, naprostý
German: absolut
Danish: absolut; total; fuldstænd
Greek: απόλυτος
Spanish: absoluto
Estonian: absoluutne
Farsi: محض
Finnish: absoluuttinen
French: absolu
Hebrew: מוּשלָם
Hindi: पूर्णतया
Croatian: apsolutan
Hungarian: teljes
Indonesian: mutlak
Icelandic: algjör
Italian: assoluto
Japanese: 絶対の
Korean: 완전한
Lithuanian: visiškas, absoliutus
Latvian: absolūts; pilnīgs
Malay: kejujuran mutlak
Dutch: absoluut
Norwegian: absolutt, fullstendig, ub
Polish: całkowity
Persian: محض، كامل
Pashto: محض، مكمل
Portuguese: absoluto
Romanian: absolut, deplin, total
Russian: абсолютный
Slovak: absolútny
Slovenian: popoln
Serbian: potpun
Swedish: absolut, fullständig
Thai: สมบูรณ์
Turkish: tam
Taiwanese: 絕對的
Ukrainian: повний; безумовний
Urdu: مکمل ، کامل
Vietnamese: tuyệt đối
Chinese: 绝对的
