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We found 54 dictionaries that define the word absolute:

General (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. absolute: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. absolute, the absolute: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. absolute: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. absolute: Collins English Dictionary
  5. absolute: Vocabulary.com
  6. Absolute, absolute: Wordnik
  7. absolute: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Absolute, absolute: Wiktionary
  9. absolute: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. absolute: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. absolute: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. absolute, the absolute: Dictionary.com
  13. absolute: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. absolute: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Absolute (Aion album), Absolute (Kublai Khan album), Absolute (disambiguation), Absolute (fragrance), Absolute (grammar), Absolute (perfumery), Absolute (philosophy), Absolute (production team), Absolute (record compilation), Absolute, The Absolute (novel), The Absolute, The absolute: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Absolute: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. absolute: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. absolute: Rhymezone
  19. absolute: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. absolute: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. absolute: Free Dictionary
  22. absolute: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. absolute: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. absolute: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. Absolute: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  2. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)
  3. Literary Criticism (No longer online)

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. absolute: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  3. absolute: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  7. Absolute: INSOLVENCY
  8. Absolute (disambiguation), absolute: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Absolute (disambiguation), absolute: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Absolute (disambiguation), absolute: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. absolute: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Absolute: Urban Dictionary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  3. Dictionary for Avionics (No longer online)
  4. Glossary for the Modern Soap Maker (No longer online)

(Note: See absoluteness as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Free of restrictions, limitations, qualifications or conditions; unconditional.
adjective:  Unrestricted by laws, a constitution, or parliamentary or judicial or other checks; (legally) unlimited in power, especially if despotic.
adjective:  Characteristic of an absolutist ruler: domineering, peremptory.
adjective:  Free from imperfection, perfect, complete; especially, perfectly embodying a quality in its essential characteristics or to its highest degree.
adjective:  Pure, free from mixture or adulteration; unmixed.
adjective:  Complete, utter, outright; unmitigated, not qualified or diminished in any way.
adjective:  (very occasionally postpositive) Positive, certain; unquestionable; not in doubt.
adjective:  (archaic) Certain; free from doubt or uncertainty (e.g. a person, opinion or prediction).
adjective:  (especially philosophy) Fundamental, ultimate, intrinsic; not relative; independent of references or relations to other things or standards.
adjective:  (physics) Independent of arbitrary units of measurement, standards, or properties; not comparative or relative.
adjective:  Having reference to or derived in the simplest manner from the fundamental units of mass, time, and length.
adjective:  Relating to the absolute temperature scale (based on absolute zero); kelvin.
adjective:  (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".
adjective:  (of a case form) Syntactically connected to the rest of the sentence in an atypical manner, or not relating to or depending on it, like in the nominative absolute or genitive absolute, accusative absolute or ablative absolute.
adjective:  (of an adjective or possessive pronoun) Lacking a modified substantive, like "hungry" in "feed the hungry".
adjective:  (of a comparative or superlative) Expressing a relative term without a definite comparison, like "older" in "an older person should be treated with respect".
adjective:  (of an adjective form) Positive; not graded (not comparative or superlative).
adjective:  (of a usually transitive verb) Having no direct object, like "kill" in "if looks could kill".
adjective:  (of Celtic languages) Being or pertaining to an inflected verb that is not preceded by any number of particles or compounded with a preverb.
adjective:  (mathematics) As measured using an absolute value.
adjective:  (mathematics) Indicating an expression that is true for all real numbers, or of all values of the variable; unconditional.
adjective:  (education) Pertaining to a grading system based on the knowledge of the individual and not on the comparative knowledge of the group of students.
adjective:  (art, music, dance) Independent of (references to) other arts; expressing things (beauty, ideas, etc) only in one art.
adjective:  (law, postpositive, formal) Indicating that a tenure or estate in land is not conditional or liable to terminate on (strictly) any occurrence or (sometimes contextually) certain kinds of occurrence.
adjective:  (obsolete) Absolved; free.
noun:  That which exists (or has a certain property, nature, size, etc) independent of references to other standards or external conditions; that which is universally valid; that which is not relative, conditional, qualified or mitigated.
noun:  (geometry) In a plane, the two imaginary circular points at infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at infinity.
noun:  (philosophy, usually capitalized, usually preceded by "the") A realm which exists without reference to anything else; that which can be imagined purely by itself; absolute ego.
noun:  (philosophy, usually capitalized, usually preceded by "the") The whole of reality; the totality to which everything is reduced; the unity of spirit and nature; God.
noun:  (chemistry) A concentrated natural flower oil, used for perfumes; an alcoholic extract of a concrete.
noun:  (philosophy) That which is totally unconditioned, unrestricted, pure, perfect, or complete; that which can be thought of without relation to others.

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