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Irrelative   Listen
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Irrelative  adj.  Not relative; without mutual relations; unconnected.
Irrelative chords (Mus.), those having no common tone.
Irrelative repetition (Biol.), the multiplication of parts that serve for a common purpose, but have no mutual dependence or connection.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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... or "filiation" another principle influencing organisation became recognisable, to which I gave the name of "irrelative repetition," or "vegetative repetition." The demonstrated constitution of the vertebrate endoskeleton as a series of essentially similar segments appeared to me to illustrate ...
— The World's Greatest Books - Volume 15 - Science • Various



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