Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word RELATIVE

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Definitions of RELATIVE

1. Connected to or depending on something else; comparative.
2. Capable to be changed by other beings or circumstance; conditional.
3. Someone connected by blood, marriage, or adoption; someone in the same family.
4. (figurative) Something kindred or related to something else.
5. (computing, of a URL, URI, path, or similar) Expressed in relation to another item, rather than in complete form.
6. (grammar) Depending on an antecedent; comparative.
7. (music) Having the same key but differing in being major or minor.
8. (archaic or rare) Relevant; pertinent; related.
9. (linguistics) A type of adjective that inflects like a relative clause, rather than a true adjective, in certain Bantu languages.

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Examples of Using RELATIVE in a Sentence

• His research extended the scope of the field and added elements of commutative algebra, homological algebra, sheaf theory, and category theory to its foundations, while his so-called "relative" perspective led to revolutionary advances in many areas of pure mathematics.
• They were afforded relative security against persecution, provided they did not contest the varying inferior social and legal status imposed on them under Islamic rule.
• A backplane or backplane system is a group of electrical connectors in parallel with each other, so that each pin of each connector is linked to the same relative pin of all the other connectors, forming a computer bus.
• Of the carnivorans, it is rivaled in size only by its closest relative, the polar bear, which is much less variable in size and slightly bigger on average.
• A lactam is a cyclic amide, and beta-lactams are named so because the nitrogen atom is attached to the β-carbon atom relative to the carbonyl.
• The relative size and development of the breasts is a major secondary sex distinction between females and males.
• After several decades of relative peace, the English had resumed the war in 1415 amid the failure of negotiations with the French.
• Isaac Newton's rotating bucket argument (also known as Newton's bucket) was designed to demonstrate that true rotational motion cannot be defined as the relative rotation of the body with respect to the immediately surrounding bodies.
• Continental drift is the theory, originating in the early 20th century, that Earth's continents move or drift relative to each other over geologic time.
• In mathematics, cardinality describes a relationship between sets which compares their relative size.
• It is smaller than its close relative, the gray wolf, and slightly smaller than the closely related eastern wolf and red wolf.
• They are classified depending on the position of the tongue relative to the roof of the mouth, how far forward or back is the highest point of the tongue, and the position of the lips (rounded or unrounded).
• A computer mouse (plural mice, also mouses) is a hand-held pointing device that detects two-dimensional motion relative to a surface.
• He formulated the principle – now known as the Doppler effect – that the observed frequency of a wave depends on the relative speed of the source and the observer.
• They omit the Sun, Moon, and planets because the positions of these bodies vary relative to those of the stars, but the ecliptic, along which the Sun moves, is indicated.
• When its close relative the bonobo was more commonly known as the pygmy chimpanzee, this species was often called the common chimpanzee or the robust chimpanzee.
• The unit fundamentally expresses a relative change but may also be used to express an absolute value as the ratio of a value to a fixed reference value; when used in this way, the unit symbol is often suffixed with letter codes that indicate the reference value.
• Data compression ratio, also known as compression power, is a measurement of the relative reduction in size of data representation produced by a data compression algorithm.
• Since the definition of an extreme environment is relative to an arbitrarily defined standard, often an anthropocentric one, these organisms can be considered ecologically dominant in the evolutionary history of the planet.
• Notably, far more Americans of Asian descent were forcibly interned than Americans of European descent, both in total and as a share of their relative populations.

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