RELATIVE QUANTITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does relative quantity mean? 

• RELATIVE QUANTITY (noun)
  The noun RELATIVE QUANTITY has 1 sense:

1. a quantity relative to some purpose

  Familiarity information: RELATIVE QUANTITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RELATIVE QUANTITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A quantity relative to some purpose

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("relative quantity" is a kind of...):

amount; measure; quantity (how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "relative quantity"):

enough; sufficiency (an adequate quantity; a quantity that is large enough to achieve a purpose)

N; normality ((of a solution) concentration expressed in gram equivalents of solute per liter)

absolute majority; majority ((elections) more than half of the votes)

plurality; relative majority ((in an election with more than 2 options) the number of votes for the candidate or party receiving the greatest number (but less that half of the votes))

aught; cipher; cypher; goose egg; nada; naught; nil; nix; nothing; null; zero; zilch; zip; zippo (a quantity of no importance)