Meaning

• Someone in the same family; someone connected by blood, marriage, or adoption.

  "Why do my relatives always talk about sex?"

• A type of adjective that inflects like a relative clause, rather than a true adjective, in certain Bantu languages.

Meaning

• Connected to or depending on something else; comparative.

• (of a URL, URI, path, or similar) Expressed in relation to another item, rather than in complete form.

  "The relative URL /images/pic.jpg, when evaluated in the context of http://example.com/docs/pic.html, corresponds to the absolute URL http://example.com/images/pic.jpg."

• (grammar) That relates to an antecedent.

• 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.