relative value

collocation in English

meaningsofrelativeandvalue

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relative
adjective
uk
/ˈrel.ə.tɪv/
us
/ˈrel.ə.t̬ɪv/
being judged or measured in comparison with ...
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value
noun
uk
/ˈvæl.juː/
us
/ˈvæl.juː/
the amount of money that can be received ...
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(Definition ofrelativeandvaluefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofrelative value

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Therelativevalueof participation in the two plans changes dramatically when the worker reaches early retirement eligibility in the traditional plan.
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Such calculations would be further complicated by any changes in therelativevalueof different dwelling types.
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These earlier investigations were concerned with the very practical question of therelativevalueof homework and classwork for schoolchildren.
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One is a change in therelativevalueput on inflation control and economic stability and that did come in the eighties.
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The noise is added as absolute value to the unit rotation quaternion and asrelativevalueto the translation vector.
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A rise in therelativevalueof collection activities would also therefore raise the price of time devoted to child activities.
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These schedules have been developed to measurerelativevalue.
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The empirical evidence shows that political change affects therelativevalueof different industries' stocks across all political systems.
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First, student preferences and their beliefs about therelativevalueof teacher and peer feedback may impact on their use of feedback.
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Therelativevalueof a year lived at 20 is around one and a half therelativevalueof a year lived at 60.
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Itsrelativevaluedepends only on the chosen kinematical structure of the mechanism and the inner relative positions of the mechanism elements.
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One is the decline in therelativevalueof contributory benefits.
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In particular, if the ratio uses the coefficient on the price proxy (cost) as the denominator, this approach gives therelativevaluein monetary terms.
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Collectively these would seem to indicate the risingrelativevalueof transport compared with other uses of town-centre land, such as dwellings.
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Second, viewing desert-satisfaction as a determinant of the good allows us to capture our intuitions about therelativevalueof certain states of affairs.
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It is therefore possible to derive arelativevaluefor a life-cycle per formance measure to these generalized relationships.
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The strength of this support depends on therelativevalueof these rare material types.
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I put aside the complication that benefits to children are often thought to have smallerrelativevaluethan benefits to young adults.
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Therelativevalueof a service is also determined by the corresponding fee schedule.
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