Look up relative in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Relative may refer to: Kinship and family, the principle binding the most basic social units of society...

the system of interest. The same amount of water vapor results in higher relative humidity in cool air than warm air. A related parameter is the dew point...

The relative permittivity (in older texts, dielectric constant) is the permittivity of a material expressed as a ratio with the electric permittivity of...

In music, relative keys are the major and minor scales that have the same key signatures (enharmonically equivalent), meaning that they share all of the...

decodes the address and displays the page. Protocol-relative links (PRL), also known as protocol-relative URLs (PRURL), are URLs that have no protocol specified...

Relative density, also called specific gravity, is a dimensionless quantity defined as the ratio of the density (mass of a unit volume) of a substance...

A relative pronoun is a pronoun that marks a relative clause. An example is the word which in the sentence "This is the house which Jack built." Here...

In any quantitative science, the terms relative change and relative difference are used to compare two quantities while taking into account the "sizes"...

A relative clause is a clause that modifies a noun or noun phrase and uses some grammatical device to indicate that one of the arguments in the relative...

The relative risk (RR) or risk ratio is the ratio of the probability of an outcome in an exposed group to the probability of an outcome in an unexposed...

Relative dating is the science of determining the relative order of past events (i.e., the age of an object in comparison to another), without necessarily...

Relatives can refer to: Kinship Relatives (1985 film), a 1985 Australian movie Relatives (2006 film), a 2006 Hungarian movie "Relatives", a song by Irving...

Relative Strangers is a 2006 American comedy film directed by Greg Glienna. Thirty-four-year-old psychologist Richard Clayton's parents reveal to him that...

Relative abundance can refer to Relative species abundance in ecological communities. Natural abundance of isotopes of a chemical element in nature. This...

In linguistics, a relativizer (abbreviated RELZ) is a type of conjunction that introduces a relative clause. For example, in English, the conjunction that...

Relative deprivation is the lack of resources to sustain the diet, lifestyle, activities and amenities that an individual or group are accustomed to or...

Relative luminance Y {\displaystyle Y} follows the photometric definition of luminance L {\displaystyle L} including spectral weighting for human vision...

Relative Values may refer to: Relative Values (film), a 2000 British comedy film adaptation of the 1950s play of the same name by Noël Coward Relative...

It's All Relative is an American sitcom that aired on ABC from October 1, 2003, until April 20, 2004. The series is about two families in Boston – one...

A relative price is the price of a commodity such as a good or service in terms of another; i.e., the ratio of two prices. A relative price may be expressed...

context of the Microsoft Windows NT line of computer operating systems, the relative identifier (RID) is a variable length number that is assigned to objects...

Relative strength is a ratio of a stock price performance to a market average (index) performance. It is used in technical analysis. It is not to be confused...

Relative poverty means low income relative to others in a country: for example, below 60% of the median income of people in that country. Relative poverty...

Relative gain, in international relations, is the actions of states only in respect to power balances and without regard to other factors, such as economics...

Relative pitch is the ability of a person to identify or re-create a given musical note by comparing it to a reference note and identifying the interval...

Relative Justice is an American arbitration-based reality court show presided over by Texas, California, and New York State licensed attorney Judge Rhonda...

Relative value units (RVUs) are a measure of value used in the United States Medicare reimbursement formula for physician services. RVUs are a part of...

homology of a topological space relative to a subspace is a construction in singular homology, for pairs of spaces. The relative homology is useful and important...

when selecting a statistical model for given data, the relative likelihood compares the relative plausibilities of different candidate models or of different...

Relative volatility is a measure comparing the vapor pressures of the components in a liquid mixture of chemicals. This quantity is widely used in designing...