(law) A privilege given to lawmakers to prevent them from being sued for libel or slander due to statements made on the floor, regardless of whether they were made in good faith.

The system of measurements based on force, and independent of acceleration of gravity.

An unqualified right; a right to act or refuse to act that is at the sole discretion of the person possessing the right.

Total pressure in a fluid equivalent to the sum of the gage and the atmospheric pressures.

(mathematics) A constant that maintains the same value wherever it occurs; such as π. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see absolute, constant.

(rare) to sum the indeterminate state and the determinate state in one term / to denote the only state not construct state as in the binary state system of Ugaritic

A state with absolute sovereignty and authority, in contrast with e.g. a feudal state. / A particularly dishevelled, sorry or contemptible condition.

(philosophy) The Platonic form of the supreme idea in which all other ideas participate. / The subject object relation.

(philosophy) In Hegelianism, the spiritual principle of which the reality is the expression.

plural of absolute idea