Relative in sentence

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For example, constant speed is relative, but change in speed is absolute.

So, some motions are relative, and some are not.

This is far more than expected for their relative brain sizes, which scale in proportion to body size.

Solar panels can use all types of irradiance, while solar towers can only use direct irradiance, and this is where clouds become important because depending on their type and location relative to the sun, they can either increase or decrease the amount of electricity produced.

And it turns out that the olfactory system dedicated to proessing smells takes up many times more relative brain area in dogs than in humans.

But according to the principles of evolution, groups that have a relative advantage tend to grow until that advantage disappears.

But you may have heard from a concerned relative or annoyed officemate that cracking your joints will give you arthritis.

For example, imagine you need to choose between two hospitals for an elderly relative's surgery.

And what if your relative's health is good when she arrives at the hospital?

Here, the hidden factor is the relative proportion of patients who arrive in good or poor health.

He explains: Every relative is assigned a number from 1 to 100.

The network then learns to classify those samples by adjusting the relative weights assigned to particular features.

I was mindful, of course, that such insights were relative.

Relative to the universe, it's just up the road.

Now, we actually don't know this species' closest relative, yet.

It confronts us with profound questions, questions we might be too lazy or distracted to ask in times of relative comfort.

Because data allows you to learn, but learning is only relative to a starting point.

I was really underpriced relative to the value I was delivering.

The math behind the power-law distribution is that whatever's in the nth position is doing about one-nth of whatever's being measured, relative to the person in the first position.

This is the size of the brain relative to what we'd expect for an animal's body size, and the elephant's EQ is nearly as high as a chimpanzee's.

And they've grasped basic arithmetic, keeping track of the relative amounts of fruit in two baskets after multiple changes.

Einstein realized that the contradiction could be resolved if it was the speed of light that remained constant, regardless of reference frame, while both time and space were relative to the observer.

Second of all, we must understand that truth is not relative.

And as I said earlier, truth is not relative.

EM: It depends on where you are and what the house size is relative to the roof area, but it's a fair statement to say that most houses in the US have enough roof area to power all the needs of the house.

What we discovered is whether you look at the leg of a human like Richard, or a cockroach, or a crab, or a kangaroo, the relative leg stiffness of that spring is the same for everything we've seen so far.

It knows their relative locations, their size.

A few examples: a study from the University of California, Los Angeles of people who are caring for a relative with dementia, long-term, and looked at their caregiver's telomere maintenance capacity and found that it was improved by them practicing a form of meditation for as little as 12 minutes a day for two months.

So, everyone told me afterwards that inviting the prospective parents over was, again, the stupidest thing I could have possibly done, because who's ever good enough for your relative?

And I think that's because they've been optimized to pass, as we always expect people to do, to optimize relative to bright-line rules about how affected the car will be.

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