Antonym: absolute. Similar words: relatively, relation, correlation, relationship, in relation to, legislative, relate, related. Meaning: ['relətɪv] n. 1. a person related by blood or marriage 2. an animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as related by common descent or by membership in the same genus). adj. 1. not absolute or complete 2. properly related in size or degree or other measurable characteristics; usually followed by `to'.
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181. Several authoritative sources provide very detailed guidance relative to what constitutes an acceptable accounting method.
182. These measurements correlate with neuronal cell count and show a relative reduction of neurons in the epileptogenic hippocampus.
183. The length of the branches indicates the relative distance between the species.
184. Also, there is a need on the part of decision makers to assess the relative value for money from competing health care interventions.
185. The caller asks if she can be informed as gently as possible that a very close relative has died.
186. These experiments tell us a great deal about certain aspects of cognitive processes, particularly their relative timing or sequencing.
187. However, the movement to which the question referred was movement relative to the body: the flow through the veins and arteries.
188. The relative importance of habit and biological factors in such circumstances is hard to decide.
189. Because setting varies enormously, since each watercourse possesses its own unique characteristics, pollution is a highly relative notion.
190. Such a general concept was to be provided by Althusser's theory of relative autonomy within a structure in dominance.
191. Some practices may balk at this degree of rigour, especially given the relative scarcity of trained counsellors.
192. Such isoforms and their relative abundance could mediate specific cell type or matrix interactions.
193. Manufacturers usually provide relative record addressing which carries out these calculations for the user.
194. The relative importance of academic qualifications varied between categories, being more significant for non-manual than for manual workers.
195. In each case the ordinate shows the relative cleavage at each bond, presented on an arbitrary scale.
196. Many teachers work in relative isolation within their own classrooms in both primary and secondary schools.
197. The deep-sea core oxygen isotope record is a framework for a relative chronology for the Pleistocene.
198. The relative autonomy of law has to be constantly maintained by successful working-class mobilization into politics and the labour movement.
199. Nevertheless, cinema ultimately retains a relative autonomy in Levin's tribute.
200. Instead, water distribution will be determined by the relative allocation of solute to the extracellular and intracellular spaces.
201. Financial need, even on the part of a close relative, has apparently never been seen as a situation which required an automatic response.
202. Temporal variations of solid concentrations at that level indicate the relative abundance of particles whose diameters may be calculated.
203. These two methods were used to calculate the relative bidirectional reflectance of ten contrasting surfaces.
204. A dominant characteristic of the location-factor school is its focus on the particular features of areas in order to explain their relative fortunes.
205. That bad times were ahead became clear already in 1391 when, after centuries of relative amity, crowds rioted in Seville.
206. That both sources of pay differential exist may come as no surprise, their relative size was not anticipated.
206. Sentencedict.com is a online sentence dictionary, on which you can find nice sentences for a large number of words.
207. Although the voluntary sector still possesses a relative production cost advantage over the commercial sector, this advantage is narrowing.
208. The first element in the argument is the relative amity and consensus between generations.
209. Brains, teeth, and antlers Relative organ size his been calculated as before.
210. The relative abundance of these elements is increasingly being used to trace chemical processes in the mantle, crust, and oceans.
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