Absolute Value Definition

noun
The numerical value of a real number without regard to its sign. For example, the absolute value of −4 (written |-4|) is 4.
American Heritage
The magnitude of a real number, disregarding its positive or negative sign.
The absolute value of −4 or +4, written |−4| or |+4|, is 4
Webster's New World
The modulus of a complex number, equal to the square root of the sum of the squares of the real and imaginary components of the number.
American Heritage
The magnitude of a complex number; modulus.
Webster's New World

(mathematics) For a real number, its numerical value without regard to its sign; formally, -1 times the number if the number is negative, and the number unmodified if it is zero or positive; the distance of a quantity from zero on a number line.

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  • numerical value

Other Word Forms of Absolute Value

Noun

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absolute value
Plural:
absolute-values

Absolute Value Sentence Examples

  • The scale is graduated in such a manner that by multiplying the reading by a simple factor (generally 10 or 2) the absolute value of the magnetization is obtained.

  • So again, in the case of the Paris curves, the absolute value of the diurnal range in summer was much greater for the Eiffel Tower than for the Bureau Central, but the mean voltage was 2150 at the former station and only 134 at the latter.

  • The Absolute Value Of The Specific Heat Deduced Necessarily Depends On The Absolute Values Of The Electrical Standards Employed In The Investigation.

  • The results of Forbes are interesting historically as having been the first approximately correct determinations of conductivity in absolute value.

  • Kirchhoff determined experimentally in a certain case the absolute value of the current induced by one circuit in another, and in the same year Erik Edland (1819-1888) made a series of careful experiments on the induction of electric currents which further established received theories.

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