relative
英式音标：[ˈrelətɪv] 怎么读
美式音标：[ˈrɛlətɪv] 怎么读
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同义词： visavis proportioned proportionate proportional proportionable opposing kin correlative correlate belongings
同根词： relativize relativity relativistic relativism relatively relationship relational relation relatedness related relate
relative概况
adj. 相对的；有关系的；成比例的
n. 亲戚；相关物；[语] 关系词；亲缘植物
relative词义
adj.
相关的；相对的；相互有关的；比较而言的
n.
亲属，亲戚；相关物；亲缘植物（或动物）；[语法学]关系词
变形
复数：relatives
双语释义
adj.(形容词)相对的,比较的 considered in relation or proportion to sb/sth else; comparative
n.(名词)[C]亲属,亲戚relation
英英释义
relative[ 'relətiv ]
n.
a person related by blood or marriage
"police are searching for relatives of the deceased"
同义词：relation
an animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as related by common descent or by membership in the same genus)
同义词：congenercongenatorcongeneric
adj.
not absolute or complete
"a relative stranger"
properly related in size or degree or other measurable characteristics; usually followed by `to'
"earnings relative to production"
同义词：proportional
relative用法
词汇搭配
用作名词 (n.)
动词+～
have no relatives没有亲戚
形容词+～
the close〔distant〕 relative近〔远〕亲
the elderly relatives年长的亲属
词组短语
relative humidity相对湿度
relative error相对误差
relative position相对位置
relative standard相对标准；相关标准
relative motion相对运动
relative density 相对密度（等于specific gravity）
relative permeability相对渗透率；相对磁导率；空间磁导率
relative importance相对重要性
relative standard deviation相对标准偏差；相对标准差
relative stability相对稳定度，相对稳定性；稳定比值
relative theory相对论，相对理论
relative merits优缺点；相比较而言的优点
relative molecular mass相对分子质量
relative movement相对运动
relative value相对价值；相对值
relative displacement相对位移；相对排量
relative analysis n. 对比分析
relative strength相对强势
relative velocity[物]相对速度
relative efficiency相对效率；相对有效性；相对效能
同近义词辨析
relation, relative这组词都有“亲戚、亲属”的意思，其区别是：
relation一般指因血统或婚烟关系形成的亲戚。
relative普通用词，常可与relation换用，有时指一般的亲戚。
双语例句
用作形容词(adj.)
Motion is absolute while stagnation is relative.
运动是绝对的,而静止是相对的。
They are now living in relative comfort.
他们现在过着比较安逸的生活。
Relative to the size, the city is sparsely populated.
与其面积相比, 这个城市的人口是稀少的。
The teacher asked me some questions relative to my paper.
老师问了我一些和我的论文有关的问题。
用作名词(n.)
He showed such concern that people took him to be a relative.
他很关心别人，因而大家都把他当作亲人。
权威例句
The validity and relative precision of MOS short- and long-form health status scales and Dartmouth COOP charts. Results from the Med...Relative expression software tool (REST©) for ...
The Dynamics of Learning Alliances: Competition, Cooperation, and Relative Scope
A fuzzy relative of the ISODATA Process and Its Use in Detecting Compact Well-Separated Clusters
Incorporation, relative homoplasy, and effect of gap characters in sequence-based phylogenetic analyses.
Relative quantification of 40 nucleic acid sequences by multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification.
A model for random sampling and estimation of relative protein abundance in shotgun proteomics.
An evaluation of the relative robustness of techniques for ecological ordination
Low Relative Skeletal Muscle Mass (Sarcopenia) in Older Persons Is Associated with Functional Impairment and Physical Disability
Clinical trial to assess the relative efficacy of fluorouracil and leucovorin, fluorouracil and levamisole, and fluorouracil, leucov...
relative词源
relative (n.)
late 14c., "a relative pronoun," from Old French relatif (13c.), from Late Latin relativus "having reference or relation," from Latin relatus, past participle of referre "to refer" (see refer). Meaning "person in the same family" first recorded 1650s.
relative (adj.)
early 15c., "having reference," from Middle French relatif and directly from Late Latin relativus (see relative (n.)). Meaning "compared to each other" is from 1590s; that of "depending on a relationship to something else" is from 1610s.
relative造句
1. Certainly you’d want to adjust the sizes of your weekends to reflect their relative importance in relation to your weekdays.
你肯定想调整周末栏的大小，以反映它相对于工作日的重要性。
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2. That is, a user moves the sliding thumb to indicate, by its relative position, a proportional value for use inside the program.
也就是说，用户移动滑块，通过相对位置来指示程序内的比例值。
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3. Sliders allow users to specify numeric values in relative terms, rather than by directly keying in a number.
滑块允许用户用相对值指定数值，而不是直接键入一个数字。
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4. In this dialog (an appropriately named relative of the Save As dialog), the user can move the file to any location.
在这个对话框中（和“另存为”对话框有些类似），用户能够将文档移动到其他任意的位置。
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5. A close relative of the implementation-centric interface worth mentioning is the “org-chart centric” interface.
实现为中心的界面有一个近亲值得一提，这就是“组织图为中心”的界面。
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6. The other modeless idiom is a relative newcomer on the user-interface scene but has been largely successful: namely, the toolbar.
另外一种虽然是用户界面的新来者，却取得了前所未有的成功，这便是工具栏。
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7. The meter should show the progress relative to the total time the process will consume rather than the total size of the process.
进度表应该显示相对整个过程所耗费时间的进度，而不是相对整个过程规模的进度。
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8. Where is it relative to other elements?
这个元素和其他元素是否是相关的？
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9. It’s important to contextualize them in terms of these goals and keywords, and to describe the rationale for each direction and its relative merits.
在展现过程中，要注意将设计方案根据目标和关键词来情境化，并描述每个方向的基本道理，以及它们各自的优点。 这些都很重要。
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10. Dragging an outline also is appropriate for most repositioning, as the outline can be moved relative to the source object, still visible in its original position.
当轮廓相对源对象移动时，拖动轮廓对大多数重新定位也是适合的，在原始位置仍然可以看到它。
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