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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Relationist :: Relationist (n.) A relative; a relation.
Circulatory :: Circulatory (n.) A chemical vessel consisting of two portions unequally exposed to the heat of the fire, and with connecting pipes or passages, through which the fluid rises from the overheated portion, and descends from the relatively colder, maintaining a circulation..
Levity :: Levity (n.) The quality of weighing less than something else of equal bulk; relative lightness, especially as shown by rising through, or floating upon, a contiguous substance; buoyancy; -- opposed to gravity..
Liquid :: Liquid (n.) A substance whose parts change their relative position on the slightest pressure, and therefore retain no definite form; any substance in the state of liquidity; a fluid that is not aeriform..
Sloven :: Sloven (n.) A man or boy habitually negligent of neathess and order; -- the correlative term to slattern, or slut..
Father-in-law :: Father-in-law (n.) The father of one's husband or wife; -- correlative to son-in-law and daughter-in-law.
Uncle :: Uncle (n.) The brother of one's father or mother; also applied to an aunt's husband; -- the correlative of aunt in sex, and of nephew and niece in relationship..
Eye :: Eye (n.) That which resembles the eye in relative importance or beauty.
Figure :: Figure (n.) The form of a syllogism with respect to the relative position of the middle term.
Homologous :: Homologous (a.) Corresponding in relative position and proportion.
Drawer :: Drawer (n.) One who draws a bill of exchange or order for payment; -- the correlative of drawee.
Drawee :: Drawee (n.) The person on whom an order or bill of exchange is drawn; -- the correlative of drawer.
Which :: Which (pron.) A relative pronoun, used esp. in referring to an antecedent noun or clause, but sometimes with reference to what is specified or implied in a sentence, or to a following noun or clause (generally involving a reference, however, to something which has preceded). It is used in all numbers and genders, and was formerly used of persons..
Broad-leafed :: Broad-leafed (a.) Having broad, or relatively broad, leaves..
Correlatively :: Correlatively (adv.) In a correlative relation.
Orrery :: Orrery (n.) An apparatus which illustrates, by the revolution of balls moved by wheelwork, the relative size, periodic motions, positions, orbits, etc., of bodies in the solar system..
Whereinto :: Whereinto (adv.) Into which; -- used relatively.
Point :: Point (n.) Whatever serves to mark progress, rank, or relative position, or to indicate a transition from one state or position to another, degree; step; stage; hence, position or condition attained; as, a point of elevation, or of depression; the stock fell off five points; he won by tenpoints..
Uranic :: Uranic (a.) Pertaining to, resembling, or containing uranium; specifically, designating those compounds in which uranium has a valence relatively higher than in uranous compounds..
So :: So (adv.) In such manner; to such degree; -- used correlatively with as or that following; as, he was so fortunate as to escape..
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