absolute
绝对的,绝对
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- : free from imperfection; complete; perfect: absolute liberty.
- : not mixed or adulterated; pure: absolute alcohol.
- : complete; outright: an absolute lie; an absolute denial.
- : free from restriction or limitation; not limited in any way: absolute command; absolute freedom.
- : unrestrained or unlimited by a constitution, counterbalancing group, etc., in the exercise of governmental power, especially when arbitrary or despotic: an absolute monarch.
- : viewed independently; not comparative or relative; ultimate; intrinsic: absolute knowledge.
- : positive; certain: absolute in opinion; absolute evidence.
- : Grammar. relatively independent syntactically. The construction It being Sunday in It being Sunday, the family went to church is an absolute construction. used without an object, as the verb give in The charity asked him to give. having its noun understood, not expressed, as poor in The poor are always with us.characterizing the phonological form of a word or phrase occurring by itself, not influenced by surrounding forms, as not in is not, or will in they will.Compare sandhi.
- : Physics. independent of arbitrary standards or of particular properties of substances or systems: absolute humidity.pertaining to a system of units, as the centimeter-gram-second system, based on some primary units, especially units of length, mass, and time.pertaining to a measurement based on an absolute zero or unit: absolute temperature.
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Examples
For a district and school desperate for enrollment and anxious to counter the narrative that ambitious students should seek out schools to the north or charters, Zora Williams was an absolute gift.
There’s an “absolute beginner” program built-in, which might come in handy for those of us who have been sitting completely still for the past six months or so.
What haunted Milwaukee, among other things, was starting point guard Eric Bledsoe’s inability to shoot — an absolute killer in a series when a defense is banking on just that.
Amazon “has seen a 50% decrease in unintended wakes over the last year,” he said, without revealing any absolute numbers.
In absolute terms, it was worse than that, says Goldman Sachs.
They are to face oppression with humble persistence and absolute conviction.
House rules require an absolute majority of members voting to choose a speaker.
Absent a body, no one can say with absolute certainty whether Castro is dead, even if all signs point in that direction.
And this song is just absolute genius and totally universal.
You have to risk it, and be in danger of looking like an absolute fool.
Solely over one man therein thou hast quite absolute control.