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being, governed by, or characteristic of a ruler or authority completely free from constitutional or other restraint
having no restriction, exception, or qualification
independent ofarbitrarystandards of measurement
relating to or derived in the simplest manner from the fundamental units of length, mass, and time
relating to, measured on, or being a temperature scale based onabsolute zero
standing apart from a normal or usual syntactical relation with other words or sentence elements
in the sentence this being the case, let us go
standing alone without a modified substantive
having no object in the particular construction under consideration though normally transitive
being self-sufficient and free of external references or relationships
being the true distance from an aircraft to the earths surface
arbitrary,autocratic(alsoautocratical),czarist(alsotsarist),despotic,dictatorial,monocratic,tyrannical(alsotyrannic),tyrannous
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sobriety, random drug tests and no use or possession of alcohol, controlled substances or drug paraphernalia.
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14th century, in the meaning defined atsense 1a
Middle Englishabsolut, borrowed from Latinabsoltus, from past participle ofabsolvereto set free, acquit, finish, complete more atabsolve
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