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Relation

//ɹɪˈleɪʃən// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The manner in which two things may be associated. countable, uncountable

    "The relation between diet and health is complex."

  2. 2
    an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together wordnet
  3. 3
    A member of one's extended family; a relative. countable, uncountable

    "Yes, he's a relation of mine, but only a distant one."

  4. 4
    (usually plural) mutual dealings or connections among persons or groups wordnet
  5. 5
    A relationship; the manner in which and tone with which people or states, etc. interact. countable, in-plural, uncountable

    "the foreign relations of the United States"

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  1. 6
    sexual activity between individuals, especially the insertion of a man's penis into a woman's vagina until orgasm and ejaculation occur wordnet
  2. 7
    The act of relating a story. countable, uncountable

    "Your relation of the events is different from mine."

  3. 8
    (law) the principle that an act done at a later time is deemed by law to have occurred at an earlier time wordnet
  4. 9
    A set of ordered tuples. countable, uncountable

    "[…]Signs are, first of all, physical things: for example, chalk marks on a blackboard, pencil or ink marks on paper, sound waves produced in a human throat. According to Reichenbach, "What makes them signs is the intermediary position they occupy between an object and a sign user, i.e., a person." For a sign to be a sign, or to function as such, it is necessary that the person take account of the object it designates. Thus, anything in nature may or may not be a sign, depending on a person's attitude toward it. A physical thing is a sign when it appears as a substitute for, or representation of, the object for which it stands with respect to the sign user. The three-place relation between sign, object, and sign user is called the sign relation or relation of denotation."

  5. 10
    an act of narration wordnet
  6. 11
    A set of ordered tuples.; A set of ordered pairs; a binary relation. countable, uncountable

    "Equality is a symmetric relation, while divisibility is not."

  7. 12
    a person related by blood or marriage wordnet
  8. 13
    A set of tuples, implemented as a table in a relational database. countable, uncountable

    "This relation uses the customer's social security number as a key."

  9. 14
    A statement of equality of two products of generators, used in the presentation of a group. countable, uncountable
  10. 15
    A subobject of a product of objects. countable, uncountable
  11. 16
    The act of intercourse. countable, in-plural, often, uncountable

    "have relations with"

Etymology

From Middle English relacion, relacioun, from Anglo-Norman relacioun and Old French relacion (whence French relation), from Latin relātiō, noun of process form from perfect passive participle relātus (“related”), from verb referō (“I refer, I relate”), from prefix re- (“again”) + ferō (“I bear, I carry”). By surface analysis, relate + -ion. Doublet of relazione.

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