(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+.
Unmitigated
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The last time policymakers resorted to such draconian measures was an unmitigated disaster: following the SEC's ban on naked short-selling of financial shares in late 2008, the S&P 500 index lost 21.5% of its value during the period of the veto.
(2) We share a responsibility to our future patients to address unmitigated climate change – described as “the biggest health threat of the 21st century” – and to advocate for a transition to a healthier, more sustainable economy.
(3) Myth 6: biofuels are always destructive to the environment Making some of our motor fuel from food has been an almost unmitigated disaster.
(4) They’re not going to be announcing, like they did at Carrier, that they’re closing up and they’re moving to Mexico.” So an unmitigated triumph for Trump?
(5) The Republican chairman of the House armed services committee, Californian Buck McKeon, castigated it as an unmitigated disaster.
(6) When he strokes the blank sheets the narrator notes his happiness: "Not for years, not since 1914 , had I witnessed an expression of such unmitigated happiness on the face of a German .
(7) The transfer window is currently six days old and so far it's been nothing short of an unmitigated, egregious waste of time.
(8) The chronic production of lipid peroxide-modified Lp(a) together with unmitigated cellular clearance by scavenger receptors may contribute to the accumulation of lipoprotein-derived lipid in macrophage-derived foam cells of the atherosclerotic reaction.
(9) The venture was a "flat, rank and unmitigated failure", wailed the man who had more or less invented popular journalism by creating the Daily Mail.
(10) "I don't see how anyone could invest in this company any longer," ISI Group analyst Brian Marshall told Associated Press, describing it as "an unmitigated train wreck".
(11) Ukip remains the great unknown Nigel Farage's Ukip conference was an unmitigated disaster.
(12) The display of cabinet solidity may not be all it seems: many know full well that their leader is an almost unmitigated electoral liability.
(13) On the first day back after the Christmas break, all that David Cameron could remember of December’s European Union summit was that it had been an unmitigated triumph.
(14) All that may happen is that prices of established dwellings go up less quickly than they would otherwise – and I think that would be an unmitigated good thing.” So now a line of economists, think-tanks, community groups and even Tony Abbott’s chair of the audit commission, Tony Shepherd, are on the record as calling for change to negative gearing and capital gains tax concessions.
(15) Phil Dorrell, director of retail consultants Retail Remedy From day one, Fresh & Easy was an unmitigated disaster for Tesco.
(16) Decision theory's role in medicine will lie between the extremes of naive optimism ("a Rosetta stone") and unmitigated pessimism ("a computerized Ouija board").
(17) The Case Against 8 – a documentary about the fight to overturn California's voter referendum that prohibited same-sex marriage for five years – leaves viewers with the unmitigated impression that Proposition 8 was overturned by a small group of very rich white people, the Great White Hope of Marriage Equality.
(18) 'Real fight starts now': Jeremy Corbyn's Brexit tweet prompts bruising response Read more Perhaps Brexit will be an unmitigated disaster – but even if it is, will the public blame the government and turn to the politicians who sought to block it in the first place?
(19) For the only western democracy without a human rights act or a developed constitutional underpinning of human rights, putting up our hand for a seat at the table looks like a piece of unmitigated presumption.
(20) This is the moment, in a life story of unmitigated misfortune, when you might expect that things would begin to improve.