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Used by multiple entities or for multiple purposes or in multiple ways.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson

, volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Fantasy of navigation , passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […];  […]; or perhaps to muse on the irrelevance of the borders that separate nation states and keep people from understanding their shared environment.}}

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Connected to or depending on something else; comparative.

* 2012 May 5, Phil McNulty, “ Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, BBC Sport:

For Liverpool, their season will now be regarded as a relative disappointment after failure to add the FA Cup to the Carling Cup and not mounting a challenge to reach the Champions League places.

Expressed in relation to another item, rather than in complete form.

''The relative URL /images/pic.jpg, when evaluated in the context of http&

x3A;//example.com/docs/pic.html, corresponds to the absolute URL http://example.com/images/pic.jpg.

(grammar) That relates to an antecedent.

(music) Having the same key but differing in being major or minor.

Relevant; pertinent; related.

relative to your earlier point about taxes, ...

Capable to be changed by other beings or circumstance; conditional.