meaning of absolute
1. Loosed from any limitation or condition; uncontrolled; unrestricted; unconditional; as, absolute authority, monarchy, sovereignty, an absolute promise or command; absolute power; an absolute monarch.
2. Complete in itself; perfect; consummate; faultless; as, absolute perfection; absolute beauty.
3. Viewed apart from modifying influences or without comparison with other objects; actual; real; -- opposed to relative and comparative; as, absolute motion; absolute time or space.
4. Loosed from, or unconnected by, dependence on any other being; self-existent; self-sufficing.
5. Capable of being thought or conceived by itself alone; unconditioned; non-relative.
6. Positive; clear; certain; not doubtful.
7. Authoritative; peremptory.
8. Pure; unmixed; as, absolute alcohol.
9. Not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence in government; as, the case absolute. See Ablative absolute, under Ablative.
10. In a plane, the two imaginary circular points at infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at infinity.
11. something that is conceived to be absolute; something that does not depends on anything else and is beyond human control; "no mortal being can influence the
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