riippumaton — meaning in English

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 Of two objects, at right angles; perpendicular to each other.
• substantive adj Of the essence or essential element of a thing.

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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