How to pronounce “absolute”

Meaning

• [Adjective]
• Free of restrictions, limitations, qualifications or conditions; unconditional. [first attested in the late 1400s][2]
• Free from imperfection, perfect, complete; especially, perfectly embodying a quality in its essential characteristics or to its highest degree. [first attested around 1400][2]
• Pure, free from mixture or adulteration; unmixed. [first attested in the mid 1500s][2]
• Complete, utter, outright; unmitigated, not qualified or diminished in any way. [first attested in the late 1500s][2]
• (very occasionally postpositive) Positive, certain; unquestionable; not in doubt. [first attested in the early 1600s][2]
• (archaic) Certain; free from doubt or uncertainty (e.g. a person, opinion or prediction). [first attested in the early 1600s][2]
• (especially philosophy) Fundamental, ultimate, intrinsic; not relative; independent of references or relations to other things or standards. [first attested in the late 1700s]
• (physics) Independent of arbitrary units of measurement, standards, or properties; not comparative or relative.
• (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". [first attested around 1350 to 1470]
• (mathematics) As measured using an absolute value.
• (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.
• (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.
• (obsolete) Absolved; free. [attested from the mid 1300s until the mid 1600s][2]
• [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. [First attested in the mid 19th century.][2]
• (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.

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