RELATIVE
relative
Noun
- Someone in the same family; someone connected by blood, marriage, or adoption.
- Why do my relatives always talk about sex?
- A type of adjective that inflects like a relative clause, rather than a true adjective, in certain Bantu languages.
Adjective
- Connected to or depending on something else; comparative.
- Expressed in relation to another item, rather than in complete form.
- ''The relative URL /images/pic.jpg, when evaluated in the context of http://example.com/docs/pic.html, corresponds to the absolute URL http://example.com/images/pic.jpg.
- That relates to an antecedent.
- Having the same key but differing in being major or minor.
- Relevant; pertinent; related.
- relative to your earlier point about taxes, ...
- Capable to be changed by other beings or circumstance; conditional.
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