Word Type

Noun

The word "relation" can be used as a noun.

Word Relationships

Opposites (Antonyms)

form general general form unrelated

Derived Terms

Clausius-Clapeyron relation Plücker relation adult relations binary relation blood relation co-relation corelation direct relation disrelation elbow relation equivalence relation false relation finitary relation grammatical relation grandrelation guest relation officer in relation to indirect relation industrial relations international relations interrelation inverse relation irrelation labor relations logical relation metarelation misrelation no relation nonrelation partial ordering relation poor relation public relations race relations recurrence relation relation of production relational relationism relationist relationless relationlike relationscape relationship semantic relation sexual relation sexual relations shirttail relation spatial relation steprelation thematic relation total ordering relation unrelation

Context

category theory databases mathematics set theory

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

abstract entity abstraction dealings individual judicial doctrine judicial principle legal principle mortal narration person recital sex sex activity sexual activity sexual practice somebody someone soul traffic yarn

Narrower Terms (Hyponyms)

consanguinity correlation function

Type Of (IsA)

abstraction dealings narration

Related Terms

correlation relate relational relative relator

Related Terms

among among family associate aunt aunt uncle blood blood family blood link brother brother mother brother sister closeness connected connected thing connection connections cousin dad daughter daughter aunt equality familiarity family family connection family connections family member family reunions family tie father father sister friends friends and general general term generators generic generic term group innate intercourse kin kinship like like relative link linkage marriage member members mother mother brother objects ordered pair people person presentation product relate related relating relational database relative relator reunions shorter sister sister father subobject table term tie tuple two two people uncle uncle aunt uncle cousin

Similar Terms

relationship

Synonym Network

connection correspondence recount relation back relative sexual intercourse

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