absolute

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I admire the absolute hell out of Valve and have for a long time.

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Quick take

something that is conceived or that exists independently and not in relation to other things; something that does not depend on anything else and is beyond human control; something that is not relative; "no mortal being can influence the absolute"

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The clearest senses and uses of absolute gathered in one view.

noun

adjective

perfect or complete or pure; "absolute loyalty"; "absolute silence"; "absolute truth"; "absolute alcohol"

adjective

complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers; "absolute freedom"; "an absolute dimwit"; "a downright lie"; "out-and-out mayhem"; "an out-and-out lie"; "a rank outsider"; "many right-down vices"; "got the job through sheer persistence"; "sheer stupidity"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for absolute.

noun

adjective

perfect or complete or pure; "absolute loyalty"; "absolute silence"; "absolute truth"; "absolute alcohol"

adjective

not limited by law; "an absolute monarch"

adjective

expressing finality with no implication of possible change; "an absolute guarantee to respect the nation's authority"

adjective

not capable of being violated or infringed; "infrangible human rights"

Example sentences

I admire the absolute hell out of Valve and have for a long time.

2 weeks of real vacation, as an absolute minimum, per year.

Upvoted just for this absolute gem:[...] it also depends on where you are on Maslows hierarchy of needs.

The article relies on a viewing of carriers as absolute evil and Apple/2007 Google as beams of pure good and light.

Yes, Burroughs did say it was "overrated", but I can tell you from experience, it's absolute torture.

So a fundamental tenet of copyright is that it cannot be absolute.

Maybe there ought to be some limits in an urban context on absolute free space-letting if this creates nuisances or the like.

After all, what does it even mean for a measure to be absolutely continuous with respect to Lebesgue measure.

** I have no problem with cperciva acting however he wants in this regard, and absolutely do not mean any disrespect.

Securities laws, in general, have never been absolute in the United States.

Heavy contrast can be. Instead, get down to the root reasons that we have issues with contrast in short, we're wired to notice differences in color or brightness than we are for absolute values of color or brightness.

So, what was all that bullshit about measures and absolute continuity all about?You try to implement an algorithm from the blog post, and, as you finish, one sentence from blog post catches your attention:Repeat steps 3-4.

It is an absolute trainwreck, but aside from that, the primary issue for consumers now is that apps built with Phonegap no longer work correctly on newer versions of Android and haven't for months, which is why Gabriele's extremely simple and resource-minimal app is currently getting a bunch of 1- and 2-star reviews in the Google Play store with complaints about the speed.

You also know that if you tried to express the concept defined in a previous sentence, but without using names for measures involved, and a notation for a value a measure assigns to some set, the sentence would come out awkward and complicated, because you would have to say that a measure is absolutely continuous with respect to some other measure, if whenever that other measure assigns a zero value to some set, the value assigned to that set by the first measure must be zero as well.