(statistics) The absolute value of the difference between a given value (such as mean or expected value) and a variate value (usually an observed value).

(mathematics) The difference (sometimes defined to be the absolute difference) between the measured or inferred value of a quantity and its true value.

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

Thermodynamic temperature; temperature measured on an absolute scale such as the Kelvin scale.

A true numerical majority, more than 50% of the items being counted.

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