abundance /ə-bunˈdəns/ noun- Ample sufficiency
- Great plenty
- A call of nine tricks (solo whist; also abondance /-bundˈ/)
- (also abundance ratio or relative abundance) the proportion of one isotope to the total (for a specified element) (physics)
ORIGIN: See abound abundˈancy noun abundˈant adjective abundˈantly adverb - In large quantities
- Very, completely
relate /ri-lātˈ/ transitive verb- To recount, narrate, tell
- To give an account of (Milton)
- To bring back (Spenser)
- To refer, bring into connection or relation
intransitive verb- To date back in application (law)
- To have reference or relation
- To connect
- To get on well (with) (often with to; informal)
- To discourse (Shakespeare)
noun (with cap) in Britain, a marriage guidance service ORIGIN: L relātus, used as pap of referre to bring back, from re and ferre relāˈtable adjective relāˈted adjective - Narrated
- Referred (to) (rare)
- Connected
- Allied by blood or marriage (also figurative)
- (of a key) sharing notes with another key or keys (music)
relāˈtedness noun relāˈter noun A person who relates relāˈtion noun - Act of relating
- State or mode of being related
- Narrative or recital
- Statement
- An information (law)
- Way in which one thing is connected with another
- A quality that can be predicated, not of a single thing, but only of two or more together (philosophy)
- Respect, reference
- A relative by birth or marriage
- (in pl) mutual dealings
- (in pl) sexual intercourse (euphemistic)
relāˈtional adjective Concerning, expressing, or of the nature of relation, esp syntactic relation in grammatical structures relāˈtionally adverb relāˈtionism noun (philosophy) - The doctrine that relations have an objective existence
- The doctrine of relativity of knowledge
relāˈtionist noun relāˈtionless adjective - Kinless
- Unrelated
relāˈtionship noun - A state or mode of being related
- Relations
- An emotional or sexual affair
relatival /rel-ə-tīˈvl/ adjective Concerning relation, esp grammatical relation relˈative /-ə-tiv/ adjective - In or having relation
- Correlative
- Corresponding
- Having the same key-signature (music)
- Relevant
- Comparative
- Not absolute or independent
- Relating, having reference (to)
- Referring to an antecedent (grammar)
noun- That which is relative
- A relative word, esp a relative pronoun
- A person who is related by blood or marriage
relˈatively adverb relˈativeness noun relˈativism noun - Relationism
- A doctrine of relativity
- The view that accepted standards of right and good vary with environment and from person to person
relˈativist noun relativisˈtic adjective Relating to relativity, or to relativism relativisˈtically adverb relativˈitist noun A person who studies or accepts relativity relativˈity noun - State or fact of being relative
- (in pl) related aspects of pay, working conditions, etc between different jobs or the same job in different areas
- A principle which asserts that only relative, not absolute, motion can be detected in the universe (Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity, 1905, starts from two fundamental postulates: (1) that all motion is relative, (2) that the velocity of light is always constant relative to an observer; his General Theory of Relativity, 1916, which embraces the Special Theory, deals with varying velocities or accelerations, whereas the Special Theory dealt with constant relative velocity, or zero acceleration, and it is much concerned with gravitation; in each case Einstein derived important equations and made predictions)
relativīzāˈtion or relativīsāˈtion noun relˈativize or relˈativise transitive verb and intransitive verb To make or become relative relator /ri-lāˈtər/ noun - A person who relates
- A narrator
- A person who lays an information before the Attorney-General, enabling him to take action (law)
relational database noun (computing) A database that is constructed so that related items of data can be accessed or retrieved together relative abundance noun - A rough measure of population density, eg number of birds seen per hour, or the percentage of sample plots occupied by a species of plant (ecology)
- See abundance (physics)
relative address noun A location in the memory of a computer described in terms of its distance from another location relative aperture noun (in a camera) the ratio of the diameter of the lens to the focal length usu expressed as the f-number relative atomic mass noun The inferred weight of an atom of an element relatively to that of oxygen as 16 or, more recently, carbon-12 taken as 12 relative density noun The weight of any given substance as compared with the weight of an equal bulk or volume of water or other standard substance at the same, or at standard, temperature and pressure relative humidity noun The ratio of the amount of water vapour in the air to the amount that would saturate it at the same temperature relative majority noun An excess number of votes won in an election over a runner-up when no candidate has more than fifty per cent relative molecular mass noun Weight of a molecule relatively to that of an atom of carbon-12 taken as 12 relativity of knowledge noun The doctrine that the nature and extent of our knowledge is determined not merely by the qualities of the objects known but necessarily by the conditions of our cognitive powers |