ablative absolute

n.
In Latin grammar, an adverbial phrase syntactically independent from the rest of the sentence and containing a noun or pronoun plus an adjunct, usually a participle or adjective, with both elements in the ablative case.

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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: a constituent in Latin grammar; a noun and its modifier can function as a sentence modifier

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