Meaning Relative
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A person who is related to another person by blood or adoption.
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late 14c., "a relative pronoun," from Old French relatif (13c.), from Late Latin relativus "having reference or relation," from Latin relatus, past participle of referre "to r [..]
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early 15c., "having reference," from Middle French relatif and directly from Late Latin relativus (see relative (n.)). Meaning "compared to each other" is from 1590s; that of " [..]
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a person related by blood or marriage; "police are searching for relatives of the deceased"; "he has distant relations back in New Jersey" estimated [..]
Source: google-dictionary.so8848.com

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another word for relation
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This has a specific meaning in family law. It means a relative, who is a step parent, grandparent, aunt, uncle or sibling (whether full or half blood or by marriage or civil partnership).
Source: frg.org.uk

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 applicable.
Source: shakespeare-online.com

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An individual who is connected to another individual by blood, marriage, or legal adoption.
Source: familysearch.org

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korev (kroyvim)
Source: yiddishdictionaryonline.com (offline)

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mekhutn
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eygener
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1 : not absolute 2 in the civil law of Louisiana : having or allowing some legal effect [a impediment] [a simulation] see also relative nullity at nullity rel·a·tive·ly adv
Source: dictionary.findlaw.com

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Colloquially "compared to". In the theory of relativity observations of moving observers are quantitatively compared. These observers obtain different values when measuring the same quantiti [..]
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That which depends upon something else.
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Colloquially 'compared to'. In the theory of relativity observations of moving observers are quantitatively compared. These observers obtain different values when measuring the same quantiti [..]
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The term relative means “individual related by affinity or consanguinity within the third degree as determined by the common law, or individual in a step or adoptive relationship within such third deg [..]
Source: definitions.uslegal.com

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The term relative here is in reference to absolute. A relative value is a value that is dependent on something else. For instance, if a table has a relative value of 80 percent, it will be 80 percent [..]
Source: ratz.com

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(n) a person related by blood or marriage(n) an animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as related by common descent or by membership in the same genus)(adj) estimated by comparison; not [..]
Source: beedictionary.com

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See Absolute and Relative, but also “in Being everything is immediate, in Essence everything is relative”.
Source: marxists.org

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ADV relatively
Source: latin-dictionary.org (offline)

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n. familiar, pariente
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Applies to measurements, in a non-standard, moving reference, as opposed to fixed reference; Compare: absolute;
Source: g.oswego.edu (offline)

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A relative is your mother (in-law), father (in-law), step parent (in-law), legal guardian, sister (in-law), brother (in-law), wife, husband, son (in-law), daughter (in-law), step child, foster/adopted child, grandparent, great grandparent, grandchild, great grandchild, uncle, aunt, nephew, niece, cousin, partner (including common law and civil part [..]
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clause (relativsetning): a subordinate clause introduced by one of the relative pronouns, or by the relative determiner whose. The typical syntactic function of relative clauses is adjectival , viz. a [..]
Source: folk.uio.no

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pronoun (relativpronomen): relative pronouns are used to introduce relative clauses.The English relative pronouns are who, whom, which, that, and Ø (zero). (Norwegian has only two relative pronouns: ‘ [..]
Source: folk.uio.no

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A relative or a grandparent, grandchild, aunt, uncle, niece, nephew or step equivalent.
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A relative as defined in section 1 of the IT Act means, in relation to any person, the spouse of such person or anybody related to him or his spouse within the third degree of consanguinity, or any sp [..]
Source: sars.gov.za

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Spouse, parent, parent-in-law, step-parents, step children, son, son-in-law, daughter, daughter-in-law, grandparents, grandchild, brother, brother-in-law, sister, sister-in-law, fiancé(e) or common la [..]
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Relation of one thing to another; Expressed as the ratio of the specified quantity to the total magnitude (as the value of a measured quantity) or to the mean of all the quantities involved.
Source: amyhremleyfoundation.org (offline)

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"Relative" means a person related to the victim within the third degree as determined by the common law, a spouse, or an individual related to the spouse within the third degree as so determ [..]
Source: oregonlaws.org

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One person connected to another by blood or affinity.
Source: southcoastins.ca (offline)

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Dependent on one's reference frame; different, as measured in one frame which moves through the Universe in one manner, than as measured in another frame which moves in another man [..]
Source: andersoninstitute.com

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Connected to or depending on something else; comparative. * '''2012''' May 5, Phil McNulty, “[http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/17878435 Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool]”, BBC Sport: *: For Liverpool, t [..]
Source: en.wiktionary.org

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lang=en 1800s=1818 * '''1818''' — . ''''. *: I felt the greatest ardour for virtue rise within me, and abhorrence for vice, as far as I understood the signification of those terms, relative as the [..]
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