Relatively
['relətɪvlɪ] or ['rɛlətɪvli]
Definition
(adv.) in a relative manner; by comparison to something else; 'the situation is relatively calm now'.
Typist: Ora--From WordNet
Definition
(adv.) In a relative manner; in relation or respect to something else; not absolutely.
Editor: Martin
Synonyms and Synonymous
ad. With reference to something else, not absolutely.
Typed by Eliza
Examples
- It is a cheap source of illumination, but is found in relatively few localities and only in limited quantity. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Finally, the fuel consumption is reduced, which in the case of the Eastern plants, with their relatively costly coke, is a very important consideration. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It is probable that the warm spells have been long relatively to the cold ages. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Relatively it was better and wiser in those days. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Now, all these were more or less ancestral to living forms, and all have brains relatively much smaller than their living representatives. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A relatively simple complex machine called the crane (Fig. 116) maybe seen almost any day on the street, or wherever heavy weights are being lifted. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The practical method of securing the proper and ready adaptation of balances to springs is to place in the rims of the balance a number of small screws having relatively heavy heads. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Such material is relatively technical and superficial. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- As we stood at the close, the two armies were relatively in about the same condition to meet each other as when the river divided them. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The block of ice is relatively so much hotter than the liquid air that the liquid air in the kettle is made to boil. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- In guns the length is relatively great, in mortars relatively small, compared to their calibers. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- For some centuries the Turkish Empire and Central Asia and China are relatively neglected by the limelight of the European historian. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I could in all humility; but would an apology tend to place us in the positions we ought relatively to occupy in this matter? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Or again, suppose two objects to be relatively great and small, these ideas of greatness and smallness are supplied not by the sense, but by the mind. Plato. The Republic.
- Our world to-day draws upon relatively immense accumulations of knowledge of fact. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Some combinations of metals possess the quality of relatively great expansibility. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- To his astonishment, he found that this relatively high heat did not melt it, as heretofore, and while it charred slightly, it was not made at all sticky. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Relatively few cities and towns are so favorably situated as regards water; more often the mountains are too distant, or the elevation is too slight, to be of practical value. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- In consequence of this relatively advanced position, Yeobright might have been called unfortunate. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Breathlessly the tribe watched from their lofty perches as Kerchak, still roaring, charged the relatively puny figure. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- She would be free forever from the shifts, the expedients, the humiliations of the relatively poor. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- It made the elaboration of a technique of instruction relatively easy. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The ranks are well filled everywhere, and of late years the telegraph as an art or industry has shown relatively slight expansion, owing chiefly to the development of telephony. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Relatively very few cylinder records are manufactured at the present time. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The spraying of trees (Fig. 143), formerly done slowly and laboriously, is now a relatively simple matter. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- These are both obtained from sodium chloride by relatively simple means; that is, by treating salt with the base, ammonia, and with carbon dioxide. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Socially the Edison family stood high in Port Huron at a time when there was relatively more wealth and general activity than to-day. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It seems that each green warrior has certain objective points for his fire under relatively identical circumstances of warfare. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Trade was coming to Rome with increasing political power, and many plebeians were growing rich and many patricians becoming relatively poor. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Flatirons are made of iron because of the relatively high specific heat of iron. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
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