The phrase "absolute figure" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are referring to a specific, unchanging numerical value or measurement.
Example: "The absolute figure for the total sales last quarter was $1 million."
Alternatives: "exact number" or "fixed value".
But it is big as an absolute figure.
Pretty much all over the world we can find that the absolute figure for inflation has doubled.
It said the ad should have made it clear that the claim was based on an average, and not an absolute figure.
Defending itself against the second complaint, Virgin Media argued that the claim "download five times faster than Sky and BT's regular broadband" would not be understood to be an absolute figure, as the small print in the ad made clear the circumstances in which consumers would be able to download five times faster.
By the following evening, our wife had talked to the teacher and informed us that the report meant our child daydreamed too little, but not to worry because it was measured not against an absolute figure but only against the other children.
In our complicated, changing world, it is not really possible to distill a whole year's operations of a vast business enterprise into a single, absolute figure.
The absolute figures will have increased tenfold within that century.
In terms of absolute figures, Bangladesh comes second to India for the number of girls married before they are 15.
The energy businesses account for 93percentt of the Growth Fund's net income, according to Mr. Zahradnik, who would not disclose absolute figures.
While I have doubts over the absolute figures for some of the more advanced measurements, they seem consistent and change in a predictable manner as your body changes.
The supposed absence of austerity in Ms de Rugy's figures is mostly a product of poor graph scaling and a reliance on nominal, absolute figures.
