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(relatives) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. Your relatives are the members of your family. Get a relative to look after the children. = relation N-COUNT 2. You use relative to say that something is true to a certain degree, especially when compared with other things of the same kind. The fighting resumed after a period of relative calm... = comparative ADJ: ADJ n 3. You use relative when you are comparing the quality or size of two things. They chatted about the relative merits of London and Paris as places to live... ADJ: ADJ n 4. Relative to something means with reference to it or in comparison with it. Japanese interest rates rose relative to America’s... PREP-PHRASE 5. If you say that something is relative, you mean that it needs to be considered and judged in relation to other things. Fitness is relative; one must always ask ‘Fit for what?’... ? absolute ADJ: usu v-link ADJ 6. If one animal, plant, language, or invention is a relative of another, they have both developed from the same type of animal, plant, language, or invention. The pheasant is a close relative of the Guinea hen. N-COUNT: usu N of n
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I. noun Date: 14th century 1. a word referring grammatically to an antecedent 2. a thing having a relation to or connection with or necessary dependence on another thing 3. a. a person connected with another by blood or affinity b. an animal or plant related to another by common descent 4. a ~ term II. adjective Date: 15th century 1. introducing a subordinate clause qualifying an expressed or implied antecedent a ~ pronoun; also introduced by such a connective a ~ clause 2. relevant, pertinent matters ~ to world peace 3. not absolute or independent ; comparative the ~ isolation of life in the country 4. having the same key signature — used of major and minor keys and scales 5. expressed as the ratio of the specified quantity (as an error in measuring) to the total magnitude (as the value of a measured quantity) or to the mean of all the quantities involved ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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adj. & n. --adj. 1 considered or having significance in relation to something else (relative velocity). 2 (foll. by to) having existence only as perceived or considered by (beauty is relative to the eye of the beholder). 3 (foll. by to) proportioned to (something else) (growth is relative to input). 4 implying comparison or contextual relation ('heat' is a relative word). 5 comparative; compared one with another (their relative advantages). 6 having mutual relations; corresponding in some way; related to each other. 7 (foll. by to) having reference or relating (the facts relative to the issue). 8 involving a different but corresponding idea (the concepts of husband and wife are relative to each other). 9 Gram. a (of a word, esp. a pronoun) referring to an expressed or implied antecedent and attaching a subordinate clause to it, e.g. which, who. b (of a clause) attached to an antecedent by a relative word. 10 Mus. (of major and minor keys) having the same key signature. 11 (of a service rank) corresponding in grade to another in a different service. 12 pertinent, relevant; related to the subject (need more relative proof). --n. 1 a person connected by blood or marriage. 2 a species related to another by common origin (the apes, man's closest relatives). 3 Gram. a relative word, esp. a pronoun. 4 Philos. a relative thing or term. Phrases and idioms relative atomic mass the ratio of the average mass of one atom of an element to one twelfth of the mass of an atom of carbon-12: also called atomic weight. relative density Chem. the ratio of the density of a substance to the density of a standard, usu. water for a liquid or solid, and air for a gas. relative molecular mass the ratio of the average mass of one molecule of an element or compound to one twelfth of the mass of an atom of carbon-12: also called molecular weight. Derivatives relatival adj. (in sense 3 of n.). relatively adv. relativeness n. Etymology: ME f. OF relatif -ive or LL relativus having reference or relation (as RELATE) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1) взаимный 2) индекс 3) относительное число 4) относительный 5) по отношению 6) релятивный 7) родич 8) связанный 9) сравнительный 10) удельный chain link relative — цепное отношение complement relative to element — дополнение относительно элемента conditional expectation of x relative y — условное математическое ожидание случайной величины x относительно случайной величины y high relative precision — высокая относительная точность measure of relative kurtosis — характеристика относительного эксцесса ( распределения) measure of relative skewness — характеристика относительной асимметрии ( распределения) medium relative precision — средняя относительная точность pencil of relative differentials — пучок относительных дифференциалов relative address coding — кодирование относительно-адресное relative biological effectivenes — коэффициент качества relative capital requirements — экон. капиталоемкость relative cell complex — относительный клеточный комплекс, относительное клеточное разбиение relative closed domain — относительно замкнутая область relative cohomology group — группа относительных когомологий relative complexity factor — коэффициент относительной сложности relative curvature vector — вектор относительной кривизны relative defferential form — относительная дифференциальная форма relative distribution relative frequency...Англо-русский Русско-английский научно-технический словарь
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прил. 1) относительный, сравнительный 2) соответственный 3) (взаимо)связанный • - relative cost - relative index - relative information - relative number - relative optimum - relative precision - relative price - relative profit - relative ratio - relative scale of the project - relative stability - relative surplus value - relative to - the relative value of the dollar ...Англо-русский Русско-английский экономический словарь
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1. относительный, соотносительный relative position —- взаимное (относительное) положение relative index —- физ. относительный показатель преломления 2. (to) относящийся к чему-л.; касающийся чего-л. the papers relative to their case —- документы по их делу a letter relative to this matter —- письмо, касающееся этого вопроса matters relative to world peace —- вопросы, связанные с обеспечением мира во всем мире 3. условный, относительный beauty is relative —- красота - понятие относительное 4. сравнительный he did it with relative coolness —- он сделал это сравнительно спокойно what are the relative merits of the two candidates? —- сравните достоинства этих двух кандидатов 5. соответственный supply must be relative to demand —- предложение должно соответствовать спросу 6. связанный, взаимосвязанный the relative responsibilities —- взаимные обязанности relative phenomena —- связанные явления 7. грам. относительный relative pronoun —- относительное местоимение 8. муз. параллельный relative keys —- параллельные тональности ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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surplus value polit. -econ. относительная прибавочная стоимость RELATIVE 1. noun 1) родственник; родственница; a remote relative - дальний родственник 2) gram. относительное местоимение (тж. relative pronoun) 2. adj. 1) относительный; сравнительный; - relative surplus value 2) (to) соотносительный, взаимный; связанный один с другим 3) соответственный 4) gram. относительный ...Англо-русский словарь
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~1 n a member of your family; relation (1) (visits from friends and relatives at Christmas) ~2 adj 1 having a particular quality when compared with something else (relative peace/comfort/safety etc) (an atmosphere of relative calm after the riots | relative merits/costs/values etc (=the advantages, costs etc of two or more things that are compared with each other)) (discussing the relative merits of various sports cars | it's all relative (=used to mean it cannot be judged on its own but must be compared with others)) (You think you're poor, but look at people in really poor countries - it's all relative.) 2 relative to connected with a particular subject (facts relative to this issue) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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