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relative
(of a musical key or scale) having the same key signature as another key or scale

RELATIVE - Early system on IBM 650. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).


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Moreover, some quantities are such that each part of the whole has a relative position to the other parts: others have within them no such relation of part to part.
John Jacob Astor, relative to that portion of our country, and to the adventurous traders to Santa Fe and the Columbia.
A Man and a Lion were discussing the relative strength of men and lions in general.
 
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