Absolute
opposed to relative; means that the thing is considered in ABSOLUTE, opposed to relative; itself and without reference to other things. 1. Absolute or non-connotative, accordthings. ing to Whately, is opposed to attributive 1. Absolute or non-connotative, accord- The former does not attribute connected or connotative. take note of an 2. According to J. S. Mill, it is incorwith the object, which the latter does. with the object, which the latter does. solute as synonymous terms. He considers absolute to mean non-relative, and In metaphysics, absolute means existing independently of any other cause. to be opposed to relative.
A case absolute, in grammar, is one consisting essentially of a substantive and a participle, which form a clause In Greek, the absolute case is the geninot agreeing with or governed by any word in the remainder of the sentence. is considered to be the nominative. not agreeing with or governed by any In law, personal rights are divided into absolute and relative-absolute, In law, personal rights are divided members of society, standing in various which pertain to men as individuals; and relations to each other. The three chief rights of an absolute kind are the right of personal security, the right of personal liberty, and the right of private property.
ABSOLUTION Absolute, in natural philosophy, is generally opposed to relative. As this relativity may be of many kinds, various shades of meaning arise, thus: 1. Absolute or real expansion of a liquid, as opposed to its apparent expansion, the expansion which would arise when the liquid is heated, if the vessel containing it did not itself expand. (See Atkinson's "Ganot's Physics," bk. vi, ch. iii.) 2. Absolute gravity is the gravity of a body viewed apart from all modifying influences, as, for instance, of the atmosphere. To ascertain its amount, therefore, the body must be weighed in vacuo. 3. Absolute motion is the change of place on a body produced by the motion so designated viewed apart from the modifying influence arising from disturbing elements of another kind. 4. Absolute space is space considered apart from the material bodies in it. 5. Absolute time is time viewed apart from events or any other subjects of mental conception with which it may be associated. 6. Absolute force of a center: Strength of a center.
Absolute zero, an imaginary temperature so low that there would be no heat left.