|a.||1.||Having relation or reference; referring; respecting; standing in connection; pertaining; |
|2.||Arising from relation; resulting from connection with, or reference to, something else; not absolute.|
|3.||(Gram.) Indicating or expressing relation; refering to an antecedent; |
|4.||(Mus.) 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.|
|n.||1.||(Gram.) One who, or that which, relates to, or is considered in its relation to, something else; a relative object or term; one of two object or term; one of two objects directly connected by any relation.|
|Noun||1.||relative - a person related by blood or marriage; "police are searching for relatives of the deceased"; "he has distant relations back in New Jersey"|
|2.||relative - an animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as related by common descent or by membership in the same genus)|
|Adj.||1.||relative - not absolute or complete; "a relative stranger"|
absolute - perfect or complete or pure; "absolute loyalty"; "absolute silence"; "absolute truth"; "absolute alcohol"
|2.||relative - properly related in size or degree or other measurable characteristics; usually followed by `to'; "punishment oughtt to be proportional to the crime"; "earnings relative to production"|
RELATIVE. One connected with another by blood or affinity; a relation, a kinsman or kinswoman. In an adjective sense, having relation or connexion with some other person or thing; as relative rights, relative powers.
|RELATIVE - Early system on IBM 650. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).|