absolute value

Noun

Meaning

a real number regardless of its sign

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

modulus absolute magnitude numerical value absolute weight flat value in absolute in absolute value absolute amount absolute values perfect sense absolute figures absolute importance absolute influence absolute rate absolute significance
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Antonyms

slightly somewhat partly partial poorly barely
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Hypernyms

definite quantity

Hyponyms

modulus

Examples

From childhood I had never believed in permanence, and yet I had longed for it. Always I was afraid of losing happiness. This month, next year...death was the only absolute value in my world. Lose life and one would lose nothing again forever. Graham Greene

"The two main directions of modern ethics with their affirmation of the importance of individual conscience and the extension of moral concern for all rational beings, as worthy of equal rights, imply a hard struggle to deny absolute value to ecclesiastical or state institutions. Aldo Capitini

There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you. Charles Dudley Warner

The absolute value of love makes life worth while, and so makes Man's strange and difficult situation acceptable. Love cannot save life from death; but it can fulfill life's purpose. Arnold J. Toynbee

Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value. George Bernard Shaw

But an absolute value is not proven by logic or metaphysical arguments; it is accepted, believed (even when not discussed), and hedged about with taboos to protect it. René Girard

Close letter words and terms

absolute unit absolute uterine factor infertility absolute uterine infertility absolute values absolute viscosity absolute weight