The implication is:
"Apparent: manifest to the senses or mind as real or true on the basis of evidence that may or may not be factually valid."
The word is used properly in the term "apparent power".
It has nothing do with the choice of a reference; all voltage measurements require a reference.
Your use of this adjective is misleading and superfluous. Why use it if it does not add to the meaning? Why use it if it is not commonly used in the industry?
1) It's not an implication when you're quoting a definition: It's a definition
2) It's used properly in an adjective on any noun where your measurements are relative to an arbitrary reference.
3) May or May Not: Which means it's independant of whether it's real or not: Which means you've consistently tried to connote your own meanings into the word and blamed me for it.
4) As voltage requires a reference (as you state above) that means it's relative, otherwise it would be absolute and not referenced: Therefore it has everything to do with a choice of reference.
5) When I first used it, it was not superfluous but limited by your understanding of the term. Since then it's become the whole center of your arguments against someone in AGREEMENT with you.
Or why not just pepper it around on everything? The selective use is apparently a connotative use.
1) It's not used where absolute measurements are available. It's not selective. Just outside your normal vocabulary.
2) It's not connotative when it follows the definition.
So here ya go:
I apologize for using a science adjective for a scientific concept when addressing persons steadfastly interested only in trades applications where it's rarely, if ever, used.