n. an integer between 2 and 36, inclusive, which can be used
to designate a base with respect to which certain kinds of numeric
input or output are performed.
(There are n valid digit characters for any given radixn,
and those digits are the first n digits in the sequence
0, 1, ... , 9, A, B, ... , Z,
which have the weights
0, 1, ... , 9, 10, 11, ... , 35,
respectively.
Case is not significant in parsing numbers of radix greater
than 10, so "9b8a" and "9B8A" denote the same radix16 number.)
adj. 1. (of a time)
representing an offset from an absolutetime
in the units appropriate to that time.
For example,
a relativeinternal time is the difference between
two absoluteinternal times, and is measured in
internal time units.
2. (of a pathname)
representing a position in a directory hierarchy by motion
from a position other than the root, which might therefore vary.
The notation #P"../foo.text" denotes a relative
pathname if the host file system is Unix.
See absolute.