What does «relativo» mean in Spanish?
- Relating to a person or thing; corresponding, referring, concerning.
Examples of use in Spanish: "en lo relativo a su conducta".
"están haciendo una investigación relativa a esa problemática".
"en lo relativo a ese tema prefiero ni siquiera emitir opinión".
- Considered in comparison or in relation to something else; that is not absolute.
Examples of use in Spanish: "todo es relativo"; "verdad relativa"; "magnitud relativa".
"un animal con un cerebro grande en relación con el tamaño del cuerpo".
"la relativa tranquilidad de los suburbios".
- Not much, in small quantity or intensity.
Examples of use in Spanish: "coste relativo".
"le daba a ese problema una relativa importancia".
- That it is open to question; debatable.
Examples of use in Spanish: "su opinión es muy relativa, hay otras maneras de ver las cosas".
- (pronombres relativos) Those that refer to people or things that have already been mentioned. The relative pronoun "los cuales" connects or relates something that has been mentioned to what comes next.
- (relativo a) In relation to.
- (error relativo) In mathematics, quotient of dividing the absolute error by the exact value.