Adjective

(-)

Connected to or depending on something else; comparative.

* 2012 May 5, Phil McNulty, “ Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, BBC Sport:

For Liverpool, their season will now be regarded as a relative disappointment after failure to add the FA Cup to the Carling Cup and not mounting a challenge to reach the Champions League places.

Expressed in relation to another item, rather than in complete form.

''The relative URL /images/pic.jpg, when evaluated in the context of http&

x3A;//example.com/docs/pic.html, corresponds to the absolute URL http://example.com/images/pic.jpg.

(grammar) That relates to an antecedent.

(music) Having the same key but differing in being major or minor.

Relevant; pertinent; related.

relative to your earlier point about taxes, ...

Capable to be changed by other beings or circumstance; conditional.

Adjective

(en adjective)

Well grounded or justifiable, pertinent.

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, author=(Jan Sapp) , title=Race Finished , volume=100, issue=2, page=164 , magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?}}

I will believe him as soon as he offers a valid answer.

Acceptable, proper or correct.

A valid format for the date is MM/DD/YY.

Do not drive without a valid license.

Related to the current topic, or presented within context, relevant.

(logic) Of a formula or system: such that it evaluates to true regardless of the input values.

(logic) Of an argument: whose conclusion is always true whenever its premises are true.

An argument is valid if and only if the set consisting of both (1) all of its premises and (2) the contradictory of its conclusion is inconsistent.