Relative Quantity

Noun1.relative quantity - a quantity relative to some purpose
quantity, amount, measure - how much there is of something that you can quantify
enough, sufficiency - an adequate quantity; a quantity that is large enough to achieve a purpose; "enough is as good as a feast"; "there is more than a sufficiency of lawyers in this country"
N, normality - (of a solution) concentration expressed in gram equivalents of solute per liter
absolute majority, majority - (elections) more than half of the votes
relative majority, plurality - (in an election with more than 2 options) the number of votes for the candidate or party receiving the greatest number (but less that half of the votes)
goose egg, nada, naught, nil, nix, nothing, null, zero, zilch, zip, aught, cypher, cipher - a quantity of no importance; "it looked like nothing I had ever seen before"; "reduced to nil all the work we had done"; "we racked up a pathetic goose egg"; "it was all for naught"; "I didn't hear zilch about it"

 

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