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relative noun

  /ɾɛ~ɪˈleʈɪv/ , /ɾɪləˈʈɪv/ , /ˈɹɛl.ə.tɪv/ , /ˈɾɛləʈɪv/
  • Someone connected by blood, marriage, or adoption; someone in the same family.
 gaol, duine muinteartha

relativity noun

  /ɹɛləˈtɪvɪti/ , /ˌɹɛləˈtɪvɪti/ , [-ɾi]
  • (uncountable) The state of being relative to something else; the absence of universally applicable rules or standards; relativism; (countable) an instance of this.
  • (specifically) Also Einsteinian relativity: the reliance of the nature of physical phenomena (such as gravity, light, mass, and time) on the relative motion between an observer and the thing observed, as developed by Albert Einstein in two theories, special relativity and general relativity.
 coibhneasacht
  • (uncountable, physics) Ellipsis of principle of relativity (“the principle that the laws of physics should be the same for all observers”).
 coibhneasacht, gaolmhaireacht

relatively adverb

  /ˈɹɛl.ə.tɪv.li/ , [tʰ] , [ɾ] , [ˈɹɛl.ə.tʰɪv.li] , [ˈɹɛl.ə.tʰɪv] , [ˈɹɛl.ə.ɾɪv.li] , [ˈɹɛl.ə.ɾɪv]
  • In a relative manner; with reference to environment or competition; contextually or comparatively.
  • (sometimes, proscribed) Somewhat; fairly.
 réasúnta
relative pronoun
forainm coibhneasta
relative atomic mass
mais adamhach choibhneasta
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