(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; absolute beauty.
(a.) 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.
(a.) Loosed from, or unconnected by, dependence on any other
being; self-existent; self-sufficing.
(a.) Capable of being thought or conceived by itself alone;
unconditioned; non-relative.
(a.) Positive; clear; certain; not doubtful.
(a.) Authoritative; peremptory.
(a.) Pure; unmixed; as, absolute alcohol.
(a.) Not immediately dependent on the other parts of the
sentence in government; as, the case absolute. See Ablative absolute,
under Ablative.
(n.) In a plane, the two imaginary circular points at
infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at
infinity.
