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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...