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Relative
Relative Rel"a*tive, n.
One who, or that which, relates to, or is considered in its
relation to, something else; a relative object or term; one
of two object or term; one of two objects directly connected
by any relation. Specifically:
(a) A person connected by blood or affinity; strictly, one
allied by blood; a relation; a kinsman or kinswoman.
``Confining our care . . . to ourselves and relatives.'
--Bp. Fell.
(b) (Gram.) A relative pronoun; a word which relates to, or
represents, another word or phrase, called its
antecedent; as, the relatives ``who', ``which',
``that'.
Meaning of RELATIVE from wikipedia
- Look up
relative in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Relative may
refer to:
Kinship and family, the
principle binding the most
basic social units of society...
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Relative density, also
called specific gravity, is a
dimensionless quantity defined as the
ratio of the
density (m**** of a unit volume) of a substance...
-
decodes the
address and
displays the page. Protocol-
relative links (PRL), also
known as protocol-
relative URLs (PRURL), are URLs that have no
protocol specified...
- The
relative permittivity (in
older texts,
dielectric constant) is the
permittivity of a
material expressed as a
ratio with the
electric permittivity of...
- A
relative pronoun is a
pronoun that
marks a
relative clause. An
example is the word
which in the
sentence "This is the
house which Jack built." Here...
- In music,
relative keys are the
major and
minor scales that have the same key
signatures (enharmonically equivalent),
meaning that they
share all of the...
- A
relative clause is a
clause that
modifies a noun or noun
phrase and uses some
grammatical device to
indicate that one of the
arguments in the relative...
- In any
quantitative science, the
terms relative change and
relative difference are used to
compare two
quantities while taking into
account the "sizes"...
- In linguistics, a
relativizer (abbreviated RELZ) is a type of
conjunction that
introduces a
relative clause. For example, in English, the
conjunction that...
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Relatives can
refer to:
Kinship Relatives (1985 film), a 1985
Australian movie Relatives (2006 film), a 2006
Hungarian movie "
Relatives", a song by Irving...
