Definition of relative

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Relative (a.) Characterizing or pertaining to chords and keys, which, by reason of the identify of some of their tones, admit of a natural transition from one to the other..

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Vanadic :: Vanadic (a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, vanadium; containing vanadium; specifically distinguished those compounds in which vanadium has a relatively higher valence as contrasted with the vanadious compounds; as, vanadic oxide..
So :: So (adv.) In such manner; to such degree; -- used correlatively with as or that following; as, he was so fortunate as to escape..
Debit :: Debit (v. t.) To charge with debt; -- the opposite of, and correlative to, credit; as, to debit a purchaser for the goods sold..
Shuffle :: Shuffle (v. i.) To change the relative position of cards in a pack; as, to shuffle and cut..
Correlative :: Correlative (n.) One who, or that which, stands in a reciprocal relation, or is correlated, to some other person or thing..
Centrode :: Centrode (n.) In two figures having relative motion, one of the two curves which are the loci of the instantaneous center..
Manikin :: Manikin (n.) A model of the human body, made of papier-mache or other material, commonly in detachable pieces, for exhibiting the different parts and organs, their relative position, etc..
Broad-leafed :: Broad-leafed (a.) Having broad, or relatively broad, leaves..
Type :: Type (n.) A figure or representation of something to come; a token; a sign; a symbol; -- correlative to antitype.
Lady :: Lady (n.) A woman having proprietary rights or authority; mistress; -- a feminine correlative of lord.
Relativeness :: Relativeness (n.) The state of being relative, or having relation; relativity..
Gradation :: Gradation (n.) Any degree or relative position in an order or series.
Heliometer :: Heliometer (n.) An instrument devised originally for measuring the diameter of the sun; now employed for delicate measurements of the distance and relative direction of two stars too far apart to be easily measured in the field of view of an ordinary telescope.
Motion :: Motion (n.) Change in the relative position of the parts of anything; action of a machine with respect to the relative movement of its parts.
Irrelate :: Irrelate (a.) Irrelative; unconnected.
Quality :: Quality (n.) The condition of being of such and such a sort as distinguished from others; nature or character relatively considered, as of goods; character; sort; rank..
Irrelation :: Irrelation (n.) The quality or state of being irrelative; want of connection or relation.
Iridic :: Iridic (a.) Of or pertaining to iridium; -- said specifically of those compounds in which iridium has a relatively high valence.
Precisive :: Precisive (a.) Cutting off; (Logic) exactly limiting by cutting off all that is not absolutely relative to the purpose; as, precisive censure; precisive abstraction..
Anthotaxy :: Anthotaxy (n.) The arrangement of flowers in a cluster; the science of the relative position of flowers; inflorescence.
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