How to Use absolute value in a Sentence

absolute value

noun

• The absolute value of a triple Salchow doesn't change from skater to skater, and there are clear guidelines about how to score the execution of that jump.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 9 Feb. 2018
• In this way, the combined index B is the sum of the absolute value of the sub-indexes divided by the number of parties in the election.
  — Bloomberg.com, 12 Feb. 2018
• What Burns and Novick prove yet again is the catharsis that can be found in telling our stories to one another – and the absolute value in getting these stories right.
  — Author: Hank Stuever, Alaska Dispatch News, 18 Sep. 2017
• The absolute value of emotion in this game will be much higher than the one that played out at Arrowhead Stadium.
  — cleveland.com, 22 Oct. 2017
• The number of extra cars on the more crowded road is simply the absolute value of the difference between these numbers: |j – (200 – j)|.
  — Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2015
• This correlates with a higher absolute value of the second number in the pair (–15 versus –11).
  — Quanta Magazine, 30 Oct. 2015
• That absolute value became their dependent variable, the thing that changed over time.
  — Adam Rogers, WIRED, 12 Mar. 2018
• Thus, claiming free speech as an absolute value, and their leftism as a badge of pride, Charlie Hebdo can mock the victims of a natural disaster.
  — Panjak Mishra, Alaska Dispatch News, 22 Sep. 2017
• Democracy, for Mises, was not an absolute value to be respected at all times.
  — Patrick Iber, The New Republic, 23 Apr. 2018
• China also beat the United States in absolute value of national power in 2016.
  — Simon Saradzhyan, Washington Post, 20 June 2018
• All four models show that Russia has lagged behind China and India in absolute values of national power.
  — Simon Saradzhyan, Washington Post, 20 June 2018
• If safety were an absolute value in transportation policy, the national highway speed limit would be fifteen miles an hour.
  — William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 2 July 2018
• DoorDash also surpassed Grubhub in market share as measured among the online food delivery companies that Second Measure tracks using anonymized credit transaction data, though the absolute value of those sales has grown for both companies.
  — Alison Griswold, Quartz, 23 June 2019

Last Updated: 29 Aug 2024