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absolute value

absolute value

 
pronunciation:
aeb s lut vael yu
part of speech: noun
definition 1: the magnitude of a real number irrespective of its sign; distance of a real number from zero.
The absolute value of both -5 and 5 is 5.
definition 2: the magnitude of a complex number; modulus.