What excatly is "relative" in Maya?

#1

can somebody make me understand what is relative in maya which we see often times in cluster options and most of the MEL commands use -relative flag?

any and all help is greatly appreciated!

#2

Copy pasta. Google is your friend.

preserve existing local object transformations (relative to the parent node)

#3

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