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Look up relative in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Relative may refer to: Kinship and family, the principle binding the most basic social units of society...

material. Relative permittivity is the factor by which the electric field between the charges is decreased relative to vacuum. Likewise, relative permittivity...

decodes the address and displays the page. Protocol-relative links (PRL), also known as protocol-relative URLs (PRURL), are URLs that have no protocol specified...

A relative pronoun is a pronoun that marks a relative clause. An example is the word which in the sentence "This is the house which Jack built." Here...

same key signature are said to be in a relative relationship. The relative minor of a particular major key, or the relative major of a minor key, is the...

Relative density, also called specific gravity, is a dimensionless quantity defined as the ratio of the density (mass of a unit volume) of a substance...

results in higher relative humidity in cool air than warm air. A related parameter is the dew point. The amount of water vapor needed to achieve saturation...

Relative deprivation is the lack of resources to sustain the diet, lifestyle, activities and amenities that an individual or group are accustomed to or...

A relative clause is a clause that modifies a noun or noun phrase and uses some grammatical device to indicate that one of the arguments in the relative...

In any quantitative science, the terms relative change and relative difference are used to compare two quantities while taking into account the "sizes"...

Relative abundance can refer to Relative species abundance in ecological communities. Natural abundance of isotopes of a chemical element in nature. This...

Relative Strangers is a 2006 American comedy film directed by Greg Glienna. Thirty-four-year-old psychologist Richard Clayton's parents reveal to him...

The relative risk (RR) or risk ratio is the ratio of the probability of an outcome in an exposed group to the probability of an outcome in an unexposed...

Relative dating is the science of determining the relative order of past events (i.e., the age of an object in comparison to another), without necessarily...

Relative pitch is the ability of a person to identify or re-create a given musical note by comparing it to a reference note and identifying the interval...

In linguistics, a relativizer (abbreviated RELZ) is a type of conjunction that introduces a relative clause. For example, in English, the conjunction that...

Relatives can refer to: Kinship Relatives (1985 film), a 1985 Australian movie Relatives (2006 film), a 2006 Hungarian movie "Relatives", a song by Irving...

line of computer operating systems, the relative identifier (RID) is a variable length number that is assigned to objects at creation and becomes part of...

Decibel relative to Z, or dBZ, is a logarithmic dimensionless technical unit used in radar, mostly in weather radar, to compare the equivalent reflectivity...

react to changes in relative prices, and of how relative prices are affected by the behavior of those agents. The difference and change of relative prices...