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riippumaton — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • absolute adj Complete and total, with no exceptions or limits.
  • free adj Not under the control of someone else; not imprisoned or restricted.
  • independent adj Not controlled or influenced by others; self-governing or self-sufficient.
  • maverick noun A person who thinks and acts independently, refusing to follow the usual rules or conventions of their group.
  • orthogonal adj Describes two things that meet or cross each other at a ninety-degree angle.
  • substantive adj Forming the essential or basic part of something.

Senses

riippumaton is used for these senses in English:

  • absolute (especially, philosophy) Fundamental, ultimate, intrinsic; not relative; independent of references or relations to other things or standards. [first attested in the late 1700s]
  • absolute (grammar) Not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence; not in a syntactical relation with other parts of a text, or qualifying the text as a whole rather than any single word in it, like "it being over" in "it being over, she left". [first attested around 1350 to 1470]
  • free (programming) Unconstrained of identifiers, not bound.
  • independent Not dependent; not contingent or depending on something else; free.
  • maverick Showing independence in thoughts or actions.
  • orthogonal (software engineering) Of two or more aspects of a problem, able to be treated separately; of a design, exhibiting consistency and composability.
  • substantive Depending on itself; independent.

absolute — full definition

  1. adj Complete and total, with no exceptions or limits.
  2. adj Measured independently, without reference to anything else for comparison.
  3. noun Something that exists as a fixed, unconditional truth or standard.

free — full definition

  1. adj Not under the control of someone else; not imprisoned or restricted.
  2. adj Costing nothing; available without payment.
  3. adj Not currently occupied or in use.
  4. verb To release someone or something from confinement or restriction.
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