Basic needs can be used as an absolute measure of poverty.

Money was the absolute measure of one's value to the firm.

And I think it's naïve to use their ratings as an absolute measure of restaurant quality.

However, alternate analysis using absolute measures found similar patterns.

The "dew point temperature" is an absolute measure of the moisture in air.

Some measurements combine certain aspects of absolute and relative measures.

But it is not an absolute or independent measure.

But remember that the best is a relative not an absolute measure.

It is impossible to provide an absolute measure of value for money.

When the Johnson administration declared "war on poverty" in 1964, it chose an absolute measure.