absolute units

Fixed reference quantities

Absolute units is internet slang for impressively large people, animals, or objects, used with mock-awe admiration.

The phrase comes from a 2017 tweet praising a large man pictured with Queen Elizabeth: "In awe at the size of this lad.

Absolute unit." The singular absolute unit is more common: That cat is an absolute unit.

Related

enormous · huge · massive · vast · hulking · measurements · thicc · reference standards · immense · in awe · metric system · imperial system · measurement systems · physical constants · lad · colossi · chonky · international standards

Opposites
measurement reference frame

absolute unitspercentage

Proportion out of hundred

ratios

scale dependence

absolute unitspercentiles

Hundredth-fraction rank markers

z-scores

Family

absolute, absolutes, absolutely, absoluteness, absolutism, absolutist, absolution, absolve, absolved

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Top 500,000
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Used worldwide · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G