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Phrases 74
- relative humidityThe ratio of the actual amount of water vapor (absolute humidity) present in the air to the saturation point at the same temperature, usually expressed as a percentage.
- Relative-risk
- relative clauseA subordinate clause that modifies or gives further information about a noun or sometimes a whole statement; in English, it may be introduced by a relative pronoun (sometimes optional) such as that, which or who.
- relative densityA dimensionless measure which is the ratio of the mass of a substance to that of some reference substance (chiefly an equal volume of water at 4°C).
- Relative position
- relative frequencyThe number of data points satisfying something divided by the total number of data points.
- relative pronounA pronoun that introduces a relative clause and refers to an antecedent. In English, some words that can be used as interrogative pronouns can alternatively be used as relative pronouns: which, who, whose, whom and (non-standard) what. The …
- relative pitchThe ability to identify or create a given note by comparing it with a reference note and discerning the interval between those two notes.
- relative atomic massThe ratio of the average mass per atom of the naturally occurring form of an element to 1/12 of the mass of a carbon-12 atom. Symbol Aᵣ; abbreviation RAM or r.a.m. For elements with several isotopes, the most stable isotope is treated as …
- relative complementThe set containing exactly those elements belonging to B but not to A.
- relative addressThe location of something in computer memory expressed as an offset from the value of a register.
- blood relativeA person who is related to another through a common ancestor, and not merely by marriage or adoption.
- relative datingA method of determining the age of a fossil by comparing its placement with that of fossils in other layers of rock.
- relative directionAny of the spatial directions right/left, up/down, and backward/forward.
- relative errorThe absolute value of the ratio of the absolute error to the actual value.
- relative keyA key with the same key signature as another key.
- relative majorityA plurality (A number of votes which is greater than the number of votes gained by any others, but which is less than a majority.)
- relative pressureSynonym of gauge pressure: The absolute pressure minus the atmospheric pressure.
- relative timeThe physical subdivision of the Earth's geology and the time and order of events which they represent.
- relative pinA pin in which moving away the pinned piece would allow capture of a piece other than the king.
- relative keysplural of relative key: A key with the same key signature as another key.
- relative bearingThe clockwise angle from the heading of the vessel to a straight line drawn from the observation station on the vessel to a given object.
- relative topologysubspace topology
- step-relativeAlternative spelling of steprelative: Any person identified as a non-blood relative but who is related through the marriage of a parent.
- first-degree relativeA blood relative who shares roughly half a person's DNA, such as a parent, full sibling, or child.
Compound words 14
- relativityThe state of being relative to something else; the absence of universally applicable rules or standards; relativism; (countable) an instance of this.
- relativisticOf or relating to relativity.
- correlativeMutually related; corresponding.
- irrelativeHaving no relations to each other; unrelated.
- unrelativeNot relative to something else; absolute.
- relativisationAlternative form of relativization: The act or process of relativizing.
- rellierelative (someone in the same family)
- steprelativeAny person identified as a non-blood relative but who is related through the marriage of a parent.
- aliorelativeOnly related, or relating an object, to other objects and not to itself.
- ethnorelativeethnologically relative