Definition of "absolute" in 英语

adjective

Free of restrictions, limitations, qualifications or conditions; unconditional.
Free from imperfection, perfect, complete; especially, perfectly embodying a quality in its essential characteristics or to its highest degree.
- absolute purity, absolute liberty
Pure, free from mixture or adulteration; unmixed.
- absolute alcohol
Complete, utter, outright; unmitigated, not qualified or diminished in any way.
- an absolute denial of all charges
- When caught, he told an absolute lie.
- You're an absolute genius!
(very occasionally postpositive) Positive, certain; unquestionable; not in doubt.
(archaic) Certain; free from doubt or uncertainty (e.g. a person, opinion or prediction).
(especially philosophy) Fundamental, ultimate, intrinsic; not relative; independent of references or relations to other things or standards.
- the doctrine that absolute knowledge of things is possible; an absolute principle
- 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.
(physics) Independent of arbitrary units of measurement, standards, or properties; not comparative or relative.
- absolute velocity, absolute motion, absolute position
(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".
(mathematics) As measured using an absolute value.
- absolute deviation
- absolute square
- mean absolute difference
(mathematics) Indicating an expression that is true for all real numbers, or of all values of the variable; unconditional.
(education) Pertaining to a grading system based on the knowledge of the individual and not on the comparative knowledge of the group of students.
(art, music, dance) Independent of (references to) other arts; expressing things (beauty, ideas, etc) only in one art.
- absolute music
(law, postpositive, formal) Indicating that a tenure or estate in land is not conditional or liable to terminate on (strictly) any occurrence or (sometimes contextually) certain kinds of occurrence.

noun

That which exists (or has a certain property, nature, size, etc) independent of references to other standards or external conditions; that which is universally valid; that which is not relative, conditional, qualified or mitigated.
- moral absolutes
(geometry) In a plane, the two imaginary circular points at infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at infinity.
(philosophy, usually capitalized, usually preceded by "the") A realm which exists without reference to anything else; that which can be imagined purely by itself; absolute ego.
(philosophy, usually capitalized, usually preceded by "the") The whole of reality; the totality to which everything is reduced; the unity of spirit and nature; God.
(chemistry) A concentrated natural flower oil, used for perfumes; an alcoholic extract of a concrete.