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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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AbsoluteAbsolute\Ab"so*lute\, a. [L. absolutus, p. p. of absolvere: cf. F. absolu. See {Absolve}.] 1. Loosed from any limitation or condition; uncontrolled; unrestricted; unconditional; as, absoluteabsoluteauthority, monarchy, sovereignty, an absoluteabsolutepromise or command; absoluteabsolutepower; an absoluteabsolutemonarch. 2. Complete in itself; perfect; consummate; faultless; as, absoluteabsoluteperfection; absoluteabsolutebeauty. So absoluteabsoluteshe seems, And in herself complete. --Milton. 3. Viewed apart from modifying influences or without comparison with other objects; actual; real; -- opposed to {relative} and {comparative}; as, absoluteabsolutemotion; absoluteabsolutetime or space. Note: AbsoluteAbsoluterights 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. 4. Loosed from, or unconnected by, dependence on any other being; self-existent; self-sufficing. Note: In this sense God is called the AbsoluteAbsoluteby the Theist. The term is also applied by the Pantheist to the universe, or the total of all existence, as only capable of relations in its parts to each other and to the whole, and as dependent for its existence and its phenomena on its mutually depending forces and their laws. 5. Capable of being thought or conceived by itself alone; unconditioned; non-relative. Note: It is in dispute among philosopher whether the term, in this sense, is not applied to a mere logical fiction or abstraction, or whether the absolute, as thus defined, can be known, as a reality, by the human intellect. To Cusa we can indeed articulately trace, word and thing, the recent philosophy of the absolute. --Sir W. Hamilton. 6. Positive; clear; certain; not doubtful. [R.] I am absoluteabsolute't was very Cloten. --Shak. 7. Authoritative; peremptory. [R.] The peddler stopped, and tapped her on the head, With absoluteabsoluteforefinger, brown and ringed. --Mrs. Browning. 8. (Chem.) Pure; unmixed; as, absoluteabsolutealcohol. 9. (Gram.) Not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence in government; as, the case absolute. See {Ablative absolute}, under {Ablative}. {AbsoluteAbsolutecurvature} (Geom.), that curvature of a curve of double curvature, which is measured in the osculating plane of the curve. {AbsoluteAbsoluteequation} (Astron.), the sum of the optic and eccentric equations. {AbsoluteAbsolutespace} (Physics), space considered without relation to material limits or objects. {AbsoluteAbsoluteterms}. (Alg.), such as are known, or which do not contain the unknown quantity. --Davies & Peck. {AbsoluteAbsolutetemperature} (Physics), the temperature as measured on a scale determined by certain general thermo-dynamic principles, and reckoned from the absoluteabsolutezero. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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AbsoluteAbsolute\Ab"so*lute\, n. (Geom.) In a plane, the two imaginary circular points at infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at infinity. | |
