It's the quantity resulting from the division of one quantity by another
We've... [DOC] [TLE] absolute value the value of a number without regard to its sign ... [PAR] allows us to add the same amount to both sides of an equation: For all real .... 
cancel one another, such as addition/subtraction and multiplication/division ... 
numeric constant, a quantity that has a known, fixed value .... a number related to 
another number in such a way that when they are multiplied together their 
product is 1.