relative+position

  • 1relative position — index aspect, degree (station), relation (connection) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 2Position — may refer to:* A location in a coordinate system, usually in two or more dimensions; the science of position and its generalizations is topology * Body position (proprioception), the sense of the relative position of neighboring parts of the body …

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  • 3Relative direction — A right handed Cartesian coordinate system, illustrating the x (right left), y (forward backward) and z (up down) axes relative to a human being. The most common relative directions are left, right …

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  • 4position — positional, adj. positionless, adj. /peuh zish euhn/, n. 1. condition with reference to place; location; situation. 2. a place occupied or to be occupied; site: a fortified position. 3. the proper, appropriate, or usual place: out of position. 4 …

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  • 5Relative articulation — Places of articulation Labial Bilabial Labial–velar Labial–coronal Labiodental Dentolabial Bidental …

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  • 6position — [ pozisjɔ̃ ] n. f. • 1265; lat. positio, de ponere « poser » I ♦ 1 ♦ Manière dont une chose, une personne est posée, placée, située; lieu où elle est placée. ⇒ disposition, emplacement. Position horizontale, verticale, inclinée (⇒ inclinaison) .… …

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  • 7Relative deprivation — is the experience of being deprived of something to which one believes oneself to be entitled to have.[1] It refers to the discontent people feel when they compare their positions to others and realize that they have less than them.[2] Schaefer… …

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  • 8Relative return — is a measure of the return of an investment portfolio relative to a theoretical passive reference portfolio or benchmark.In active portfolio management, the aim is to maximize the relative return (often subject to a risk constraint). In passive… …

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  • 9relative to sth — ► compared to something else: »Official figures probably understate Europe s growth relative to America. »Pay in many white collar jobs has been stagnating relative to inflation. relative to earnings/income/sales »Motoring costs are forecast to… …

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  • 10Position — Po*si tion, n. [F. position, L. positio, fr. ponere, positum, to put, place; prob. for posino, fr. an old preposition used only in comp. (akin to Gr. ?) + sinere to leave, let, permit, place. See {Site}, and cf. {Composite}, {Compound}, v.,… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English