(music, countable or uncountable) The exact pitch of a note as established by its rate of vibration based on a standard scale.

A state over which a sole monarch has absolute and unlimited power. / (uncountable) The rule of such a monarch, as a form of government.

(aviation) A type of altimeter which measures vertical distance to the surface below, using radio, radar, sonic, laser, or capacitive technology.

(grammar) A construction in Latin and other sister languages in which an independent phrase with a noun in the ablative case has a participle, adjective, or noun, expressed or implied, which agrees with it in gender, number and case – both words forming a clause grammatically unconnected with the rest of the sentence.

(mathematical analysis) Of an infinite series: such that the sum of the absolute values of its summands converges.

(chemistry) Reasonably pure ethyl alcohol that contains at most 1% of water

plural of absolute value

plural of ablative absolute

A concentration obtained during the enfleurage process, by removal of the alcohol from the extracts of the pomade.

Instrumental music having an intellectual and affective content, which depends solely on its rhythmic, melodic, and contrapuntal structure.