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RELATIVE QUANTITY

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• RELATIVE QUANTITY (noun)
The noun RELATIVE QUANTITY has 1 sense:

1. a quantity relative to some purpose

Familiarity information: RELATIVE QUANTITY used as a noun is very rare.

• RELATIVE QUANTITY (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A quantity relative to some purpose

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("relative quantity" is a kind of...):

amount; measure; quantity (how much there is of something that you can quantify)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "relative quantity"):

enough; sufficiency (an adequate quantity; a quantity that is large enough to achieve a purpose)

N; normality ((of a solution) concentration expressed in gram equivalents of solute per liter)

absolute majority; majority ((elections) more than half of the votes)

plurality; relative majority ((in an election with more than 2 options) the number of votes for the candidate or party receiving the greatest number (but less that half of the votes))

aught; cipher; cypher; goose egg; nada; naught; nil; nix; nothing; null; zero; zilch; zip; zippo (a quantity of no importance)

"If you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen."
(English proverb)
"As long as there will remain two men on Earth, Jealousy will reign"
(Breton proverb)
"Human thinks and God plans."
(Arabic proverb)
"With friends like these, who needs enemies?"
(Croatian proverb)

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Definition of nix
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