absolute

Definitions

• Free of restrictions, limitations, qualifications or conditions; unconditional.
• Free from imperfection, perfect, complete; especially, perfectly embodying a quality in its essential characteristics or to its highest degree.
• Pure, free from mixture or adulteration; unmixed.
• Complete, utter, outright; unmitigated, not qualified or diminished in any way.
• Positive, certain; unquestionable.
• (archaic) Certain; free from doubt or uncertainty (e.g. a person, opinion or prediction).
• (especially) Fundamental, ultimate, intrinsic; not relative; independent of references or relations to other things or standards.
• (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".
• (math) As measured using an absolute value.
• (math) 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) Independent of (references to) other arts; expressing things (beauty, ideas, etc) only in one art.
• (obsolete) Absolved; free.