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Look up: Absolute

  1. absolute
    Type: Term Pronunciation: ab′sō-lūt Definitions: 1. Unconditional; unlimited; uncombined; undiluted (as in reference to alcohol); certain.
    Found on http://www.medilexicon.com/medicaldictio

  2. Absolute
    anything of which it can be predicated that it is 'not relative'. In pure metaphysics that which exists independent of any other cause; unconditioned. Hence the same as Parabrahmam, or the 'unknowable'. That state or condition into which it is said the manifested universe disappears upon the great P...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20207

  3. absolute
    [adj] - expressing finality with no implication of possible change 2. [adj] - not limited by law 3. [adj] - without conditions or limitations 4. [adj] - complete and without restriction or qualification 5. [adj] - not capable of being violated or infringed 6. [adj] - perfe...
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  4. absolute
    In philosophy, the opposite of relative, dependent, or conditioned. The underlying view is that any particular thing is incomplete and therefore not fully real: it is only the totality, the universe...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20688

  5. absolute
    essential oil from which waxes are removed Category: The chemical industry
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  6. Absolute
    Ab'so·lute adjective [ Latin absolutus , past participle of absolvere : confer French absolu . See Absolve .] 1. Loosed from any limitation or condition; uncontrolled; unrestricted; unconditional; as, absolute
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/A/9

  7. Absolute
    Ab'so·lute noun (Geom.) In a plane, the two imaginary circular points at infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at infinity.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/A/9

  8. absolute
    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 beau...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  9. absolute
    conclusive adjective expressing finality with no implication of possible change; `an absolute guarantee to respect the nation`s authority`; `inability to make a conclusive refusal`
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  10. absolute
    infrangible adjective not capable of being violated or infringed; `infrangible human rights`
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  11. absolute
    total adjective without conditions or limitations; `a total ban`
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  12. absolute
    adjective not limited by law; `an absolute monarch`
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  13. absolute
    adjective perfect or complete or pure; `absolute loyalty`; `absolute silence`; `absolute truth`; `absolute alcohol`
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  14. absolute
    noun 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`
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  15. absolute
    out-and-out(a) adjective complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers; `absolute freedom`; `an absolute dimwit`; `a downright lie`; `out-and-out mayh...
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  16. absolute
    (ab´sә-lldbomact) free from limitations; unlimited; uncombined.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/21001

  17. Absolute
    • (a.) Loosed from any limitation or condition; uncontrolled; unrestricted; unconditional; as, absolute authority, monarchy, sovereignty, an absolute promise or command; absolute power; an absolute monarch. • (a.) Complete in itself; perfect; consummate; faultless; as, absolute perfection;...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  18. absolute
    (from the article `perfume`) ...solvent—a solid substance called a concrete. Treatment of the concrete with a second substance, usually alcohol, leaves the waxes undissolved and ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/a/7

  19. Absolute
    (from the article `philosophy, Western`) ...intensity of Kant. He conceived of human self-consciousness as the primary metaphysical fact through the analysis of which the philosopher finds ... G.W.F. Hegel had, as noted above, a profound effect upon the development of historical and other studies. His own system, the system of the Absol...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/a/7

  20. absolute
    absolute 1. Perfect in quality or nature; free from imperfection; complete, perfect. 2. Not mixed or adulterated; pure. 3. Not limited by restrictions or exceptions; unconditional, complete, outright: absolute trust. 4. Unqualified in extent or degree; total: absolute silence. 5. Unconstrained b...
    Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/inf

  21. Absolute
    refers to a feedback device such as a resolver or an absolute encoder that provides unique position information for each discrete shaft location; unlike an incremental feedback device which requires a known reference point, an absolute feedback device retains position information when power to the system is momentarily lost.
    Found on http://www.empiremagnetics.com/glossary/

  22. absolute
    absolute, in philosophy, the opposite of relative. The term has acquired numerous widely variant connotations in different philosophical systems. It means unlimited, unconditioned, or free of any relation; perfect, complete, or total; permanent, inherent, or ultimate; independent, or valid without r...
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/society/A0

  23. Absolute
    (Lat. absolvere to release or set free) Of this term Stephanus Chauvin in the Lexicon Philosophicum, 1713, p2 observes: 'Because one thing is said to be free from another in many ways, so also the word absolute is taken by the philosophers in many senses.' In Medieval Scholasticism this term was var...
    Found on http://www.ditext.com/runes/a.html

  24. Absolute
    n without any condition or encumbrance; in distinction from a conditional bond; an absolute estate is the one which has no conditions imposed and no incumbrance.
    Found on http://www.legal-explanations.com/defini

  25. Absolute
    Something that is absolute is freed from relation, limitation or dependence. As an adjective, it is therefore applied to the essence of a thing apart from its relations or appearances, and to the complete or perfect state of being. Hence comes its substantial meaning of 'The Absolute' as the self-ex...
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow



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11 February 2012

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On 11th February, 1858, a 14 year old French peasant girl, Bernadette Soubirous claimed to have seen visions of the Virgin Mary at her native Lourdes. She also revealed that the waters of a spring near a grotto in Lourdes had been given healing powers by the Virgin. Eventually, the Roman Catholic church decided that the visions were authentic. Franz Werfel wrote the novel, Song of Bernadette, based on the story of Bernadette's visions. read more

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