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 ab·so·lute /ˈæbsəˌlut/ 形容詞
 絕對的, 專制的, 完全的, 獨立的

 absolute
 絕對

 Ab·so·lute a.
 1. Loosed from any limitation or condition; uncontrolled; unrestricted; unconditional; as, absolute authority, monarchy, sovereignty, an absolute promise or command; absolute power; an absolute monarch.
 2. Complete in itself; perfect; consummate; faultless; as, absolute perfection; absolute beauty.
 So absolute she seems,
 And in herself complete.   --Milton.
 3. Viewed apart from modifying influences or without comparison with other objects; actual; real; -- opposed to relative and comparative; as, absolute motion; absolute time or space.
 Note: Absolute rights and duties are such as pertain to man in a state of nature as contradistinguished from relative rights and duties, or such as pertain to him in his social relations.
 4. Loosed from, or unconnected by, dependence on any other being; self-existent; self-sufficing.
 Note: ☞ In this sense God is called the Absolute by the Theist. The term is also applied by the Pantheist to the universe, or the total of all existence, as only capable of relations in its parts to each other and to the whole, and as dependent for its existence and its phenomena on its mutually depending forces and their laws.
 5. Capable of being thought or conceived by itself alone; unconditioned; non-relative.
 Note: ☞ It is in dispute among philosopher whether the term, in this sense, is not applied to a mere logical fiction or abstraction, or whether the absolute, as thus defined, can be known, as a reality, by the human intellect.
    To Cusa we can indeed articulately trace, word and thing, the recent philosophy of the absolute.   --Sir W. Hamilton.
 6. Positive; clear; certain; not doubtful. [R.]
    I am absolute 't was very Cloten.   --Shak.
 7. Authoritative; peremptory. [R.]
 The peddler stopped, and tapped her on the head,
 With absolute forefinger, brown and ringed.   --Mrs. Browning.
 8. Chem. Pure; unmixed; as, absolute alcohol.
 9. Gram. Not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence in government; as, the case absolute. See Ablative absolute, under Ablative.
 Absolute curvature Geom., that curvature of a curve of double curvature, which is measured in the osculating plane of the curve.
 Absolute equation Astron., the sum of the optic and eccentric equations.
 Absolute space Physics, space considered without relation to material limits or objects.
 Absolute terms. Alg., such as are known, or which do not contain the unknown quantity. --Davies & Peck.
 Absolute temperature Physics, the temperature as measured on a scale determined by certain general thermo-dynamic principles, and reckoned from the absolute zero.
 Absolute zero Physics, the be ginning, or zero point, in the scale of absolute temperature. It is equivalent to -273° centigrade or -459.4° Fahrenheit.
 Syn: -- Positive; peremptory; certain; unconditional; unlimited; unrestricted; unqualified; arbitrary; despotic; autocratic.

 Ab·so·lute n. Geom. In a plane, the two imaginary circular points at infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at infinity.
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 absolute
      adj 1: perfect or complete or pure; "absolute loyalty"; "absolute
             silence"; "absolute truth"; "absolute alcohol" [ant: relative]
      2: complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes
         used informally as intensifiers; "absolute freedom"; "an
         absolute dimwit"; "a downright lie"; "out-and-out mayhem";
         "an out-and-out lie"; "a rank outsider"; "many right-down
         vices"; "got the job through sheer persistence"; "sheer
         stupidity" [syn: downright, out-and-out(a), rank(a),
          right-down, sheer(a)]
      3: not limited by law; "an absolute monarch"
      4: expressing finality with no implication of possible change;
         "an absolute (or unequivocal) quarantee to respect the
         nation's authority"; "inability to make a conclusive (or
         unequivocal) refusal" [syn: conclusive]
      5: without conditions or limitations; "a total ban" [syn: total,
          unconditioned]
      6: not capable of being violated or infringed; "infrangible
         human rights" [syn: infrangible, inviolable]
      n : something that is conceived to be absolute; something that
          does not depends on anything else and is beyond human
          control; "no mortal being can influence the absolute"