| RELATIVE | computing dictionary |
Early system on IBM 650. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).
(03 Feb 2009)
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| relative | medical dictionary |
One who, or that which, relates to, or is considered in its relation to, something else; a relative object or term; one of two object or term; one of two objects directly connected by any relation. Specifically:
A person connected by blood or affinity; strictly, one allied by blood; a relation; a kinsman or kinswoman. "Confining our care . . . To ourselves and relatives." .
A relative prnoun; a word which relates to, or represents, another word or phrase, called its antecedent; as, the relatives " who", "which", "that".
(01 Mar 1998)
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