(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.) 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.
Example Sentences:
(1) The absolute recoveries of diazepam, nordazepam and flurazepam in human milk were 84, 86 and 92% and in human plasma 97, 89 and 94%, respectively.
(2) Other haematological parameters remained normal, with the exception of the absolute number of lymphocytes, which initially fell sharply but soon returned to, and even exceeded, control levels.
(3) No relationship was found with the absolute value of either peak or area GH.
(4) The guanethidine treatment resulted in an 86% absolute reduction in cell number in the superior cervical ganglia of 15 day old rats.
(5) The absolute level of ventilatory capacity resembles that of Nepalese children and differs from that of some other groups.
(6) Lipoprotein electrophoresis on agarose gel has been modified to allow estimation of the absolute quantity of each fraction.
(7) Paired tolbutamide and glucose infusions using a square wave technique demonstrated that although early phase insulin secretion is dimished in the fetus, this is not due to an absolute deficiency of stored insulin.
(8) Significant differences in the pharmacological characteristics of the alpha 2 adrenoceptor were observed between the tissues with reference to both absolute drug affinities as well as rank order of drug potency.
(9) This stimulation is mediated by one receptor with an apparent affinity of 3.3 X 10(-6) M. The hydroxyl group in the para position on phenylethanolamine was absolutely necessary to obtain an agonist whereas the meta hydroxyl group or the presence of a catechol almost suppressed the activity.
(10) The early absolute but transient dependence of these A-MuLV mast cell transformants on a fibroblast feeder suggests a multistep process in their evolution, in which the acquisition of autonomy from factors of mesenchymal cell origin may play an important role.
(11) From this it is clear that either an absolute increase in radiographic density or structural failure are the earliest radiological features.
(12) So far, attempts to produce linolenic acid deficiency in mammals have not revealed an absolute requirement for n-3 fatty acids.
(13) "We absolutely regret the setbacks Kim Dotcom has had since MegaUpload was taken offline, but we hope he as an entrepreneur will understand our side of the story and the decisions deliberately taken."
(14) But we sent out reconnoitres in the morning; we send out a team in advance and they get halfway down the road, maybe a quarter of the way down the road, sometimes three-quarters of the way down the road – we tried this three days in a row – and then the shelling starts and while I can’t point the finger at who starts the shelling, we get the absolute assurances from the Ukraine government that it’s not them.” Flags on all Australian government buildings will be flown at half-mast on Thursday, and an interdenominational memorial service will be held at St Patrick’s cathedral in Melbourne from 10.30am.
(15) The prime minister said: “I am taking absolutely nothing for granted.
(16) DR(+) cells, however, showed no change in percentage and a lesser drop in absolute numbers, suggesting an increase with advancing disease of DR(+), Ig(-) null cells, which may represent immature B cell precursors.
(17) The wide variation in potency explains the variation found in absolute bioavailability, and the increase in release rate when the pellets are crushed explains the differences seen in peak plasma times, since the pellets will be chewed to varying degrees by the horse.
(18) Methods are in development that will allow determination of absolute blood flow in pertinent vessels via IV-DSA.
(19) When using pair stimula, barbamil shortens the period of absolute nonexcitation and the second phase of depression in the cycle of restituted H-reflexes to the second stimula in the pair.
(20) Immune complex- and A23187-induced 20:4 release was absolutely dependent on extracellular Ca2+.
Connotation
Definition:
(n.) The act of connoting; a making known or designating something additional; implication of something more than is asserted.
Example Sentences:
(1) The problem of the achondroplast arises when his surroundings, right from the start, reject his disorder, connoting it with destructive anxiety: this seriously harms the subject's physical image, making him an outcast.
(2) At least five terms which connote power of muscular performances are used today.
(3) With respect to the relative case fatality rates, the complements of the relative survival rates, the eight-year rate of 19 percent for the BCDDP versus that of 35 percent for SEER connotes 46 percent fewer women dying in the BCDDP group.
(4) Such words, spoken by a German politician, have the worst possible connotations for Poles.
(5) Such plants have been used for many centuries for the pungency and flavoring value, for their medicinal properties, and, in some parts of the world, their use also has religious connotations.
(6) Using the example of the stress concept, it is suggested that it is a 'key word' with denotative and connotative meanings accessible to professional and laymen, contributing to explore the 'gray zone' between 'health' and 'disease' by linking psychological, social and biological determinants of 'well-being' and 'discomfort'.
(7) So there were no gender connotations whatsoever in the choice?
(8) Certainly, "celebrity", even though it's craved by many, has negative connotations.
(9) It now connotes much more than an economic strategy, evoking, as the phrase “winter of discontent” did for so many years, a much broader sense of unease.
(10) Two main techniques are the study of longitudinal data (where time-spaced studies on the same population are available) and of age-ranked, cross-sectional data (where the lack of declining stature with age connotes the absence of a secular trens).
(11) Descriptive, stipulative, and connotative definitions of role strain are derived, and necessary and relevant properties are proposed.
(12) Because its histologic morphology bears a striking resemblance to Brunn's nests and because the term papilloma of the urinary bladder connotes potential malignant change, we propose the designation brunnian adenoma.
(13) One of the reasons that mindfulness is really catching on is that it can be delivered in a way that is entirely secular, stripped of any religious connotations, making it entirely acceptable to the wider population.
(14) When grouped into the 6 key words, the opinions uncovered a vast somatic field, confusion couched in metonymic figures of speech, such as using the term "woman" for "mental patient," moral, genital and sexual connotations.
(15) Elevated plasma levels of CEA do not necessarily connote elevated tumor tissue levels of CEA, and conversely, normal plasma levels of CEA do not necessarily mean low levels of tumor CEA.
(16) The data obtained in the investigation indicate that the term has acquired a specific connotation within the international nursing context and that specific defined attributes distinguishes it from the broad and general definition found in standard dictionaries.
(17) Patients expecting to receive psychotropic drug gave significantly more often positive emotional connotations about the presumed modes of action of these drugs than patients without such an expectation.
(18) Traditions and customs related to the consumption of alcohol still have a strong positive connotation in France.
(19) In the introduction the author submits association, connotations, and definitions of basic ethical terms, along with a classification of ethics.
(20) It’s obviously got some racial connotations to it, we’ve got our head in the sand and we don’t think it does.