Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having no correlative relationship; unconnected.
- adjective Irrelevant.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In biology, of or pertaining to the reduplication or repetition of like parts or organs without mutual relation.
- Not relative; without mutual relations; unconnected.
- In music, not having tones in common; not connected or related: as, irrelative chords, keys, etc. (that is, chords, keys, etc., that have few or no tones in common).
- noun That which is not relative or connected.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not relative; without mutual relations; unconnected.
- adjective (Mus.) those having no common tone.
- adjective (Biol.) the multiplication of parts that serve for a common purpose, but have no mutual dependence or connection.
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- adjective archaic
irrelevant , not connected
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Examples
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Though the backgrounds of New Orleans and Kassel (and their respective contexts of trauma) are obviously separate with highly divergent degrees of heinous social injury, they are certainly not incomparable or irrelative.
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Though the backgrounds of New Orleans and Kassel (and their respective contexts of trauma) are obviously separate with highly divergent degrees of heinous social injury, they are certainly not incomparable or irrelative.
Living in the Imagination of the World: Treme , Cultural Diplomacy and the International Exhibition Linda Constant 2010
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'' No disrespect to Carolina and all this other stuff because it's irrelative right now.
USATODAY.com 2007
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‘WHICH, was you pleased to observe, Miss Varden?’ said Miggs, with a strong emphasis on the irrelative pronoun.
Barnaby Rudge 2007
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One reason is that you have made too much irrelative remarks on the topic. twq
If Dulan Junipers Were a Temperature Proxy « Climate Audit 2007
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It is ture that whether these millennium climate-reconstructions show an increasing trend or not is irrelative to make a conclusion that the release of co2 is primary factor responsible for recent climate warming.
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I wait for your reply to the point, not other irrelative posts. bender
If Dulan Junipers Were a Temperature Proxy « Climate Audit 2007
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Whether Shao remove it or not is irrelative to that steve should remove it.
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First, Exceeding irrelative to the business in hand.
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966
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“This,” he saith, “hath neither any logical nor theological virtue in it for the purpose for which it is produced, but is a notion irrelative to the business, the accommodation whereof it pretends.”
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966
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