Relative tense and absolute tense are distinct possible uses of the grammatical category of tense. Absolute tense means the grammatical expression of...

absolute) tense. Some languages have different verb forms or constructions which manifest relative tense, such as pluperfect ("past-in-the-past") and...

Uses of English verb forms. Future tense Prophetic perfect tense Relative and absolute tense Dahl, Osten, Tense and Aspect Systems, Blackwell Publ., 1985...

occurred yesterday (in an absolute tense system) or on the preceding day (in a relative tense system). A pre-hesternal tense refers to an event which occurred...

events of today (in an absolute tense system) or of the day under consideration (in a relative tense system). Hodiernal past tense refers to events of earlier...

semantic perspective, a tense is a temporal circumstance in which an event takes place relative to a given point in time. It is absolute (primary) if it relates...

semantic perspective, a tense is a temporal circumstance in which an event takes place relative to a given point in time. It is absolute (primary) if it relates...

differential geometry, a tensor density or relative tensor is a generalization of the tensor field concept. A tensor density transforms as a tensor field when passing...

popularised tensors in 1900 – continuing the earlier work of Bernhard Riemann, Elwin Bruno Christoffel, and others – as part of the absolute differential...

the relative permittivity is a second rank tensor. The relative permittivity of a material for a frequency of zero is known as its static relative permittivity...

the present, future, aorist and perfect tense; these tenses normally represent not absolute time but only time relative to the main verb of the sentence...

will occur tomorrow (in an absolute tense system) or the following day (in a relative tense system). A post-crastinal tense indicates some time after tomorrow...

quantity is also often and ambiguously referred to as the permittivity. Another common term encountered for both absolute and relative permittivity is the...

order (for example, the absolutive argument comes before the verb and the ergative argument comes after it) Syntactic pivots Relative clauses – determining...

space and time where all the components of the stress–energy tensor are zero. This means that this region is devoid of energy and momentum, and by consequence...

deictic tense, the grammatical expression of time reference (usually past, present or future) relative either to the moment of speaking (absolute tense) or...

pressure. For gases, pressure is sometimes measured not as an absolute pressure, but relative to atmospheric pressure; such measurements are called gauge...

pluperfect as an absolute-relative tense, because it absolutely (not by context) establishes a deixis (the past event) and places the action relative to the deixis...

example, Malagasy can relativize only subject and Chukchi only absolutive arguments, whilst Basque can relativize absolutives, ergatives and indirect objects...

English future tense expressed by the auxiliary verb will refers to an event in the absolute future, regardless of the reference time or relative time of the...

going and would have gone They can be used to express tense (time reference), aspect, mood, modality and voice, in various configurations. For details of how...

verb forms with tense and aspect. This is especially common among verb-final languages, where attributive verb phrases act as relative clauses. Linguistics...

of a set of "second tenses", which are required in certain syntactic contexts. "Second tenses" are also called "relative tenses" in some work. Coptic...

relative to an inertial frame, and therefore includes a term due to the Earth's rotation, the Coriolis parameter. The potential vorticity is absolute...

eundum 'necessary to go'. Like the infinitive, the tenses of the participles are not absolute but relative to the main verb of the sentence. For example,...

perfect places the action relative only to the absolute future reference point, without specifying the location in time relative to the present. In most...

In mathematics and physics, a tensor field is a function assigning a tensor to each point of a region of a mathematical space (typically a Euclidean space...

distinction and the deuterotonic/prototonic distinction. The absolute/conjunct distinction is retained in the habitual present tense (also used as, and often...

can be written in terms of positions relative to a reference point R {\displaystyle \mathbf {R} } , and absolute velocities v i {\displaystyle \mathbf...

considered absolute future, or the future light cone. In the philosophy of time, presentism is the belief that only the present exists and the future and the...