Dictionary Definition
relation
Noun
1 an abstraction belonging to or characteristic
of two entities or parts together
2 the act of sexual procreation between a man and
a woman; the man's penis is inserted into the woman's vagina and
excited until orgasm and ejaculation occur [syn: sexual
intercourse, intercourse, sex act, copulation, coitus, coition, sexual
congress, congress,
sexual
relation, carnal
knowledge]
3 a person related by blood or marriage; "police
are searching for relatives of the deceased"; "he has distant
relations back in New Jersey" [syn: relative]
4 an act of narration; "he was the hero according
to his own relation"; "his endless recounting of the incident
eventually became unbearable" [syn: telling, recounting]
5 (law) the principle that an act done at a later
time is deemed by law to have occurred at an earlier time; "his
attorney argued for the relation back of the ammended complaint to
the time the initial complaint was filed" [syn: relation
back]
6 (usually plural) mutual dealings or connections
among persons or groups; "international relations"
User Contributed Dictionary
see Relation
English
Etymology
From relacioun, from relacion (cognate to French relation), from relationem, accusative of relatio, noun of process form from perfect passive participle relatus, from verb referre, from prefix re- + ferrePronunciation
- rĭ-lā'shən, /rɪˈleɪʃən/, /rI"leIS@n/
Noun
- The manner in which two things may be associated.
- The relation between diet and health is complex.
- A member of one's family.
- Yes, he's a relation of mine, but a only distant one.
- The act of relating
a story.
- Your relation of the events is different from mine.
- A set of ordered
tuples; equivalently, a
Boolean function of two or more arguments.
- Equality is a symmetric relation, while divisibility is not.
- A set of ordered tuples retrievable by a relational
database; a table.
- This relation uses the customer's social security number as a key.
- A statement of equality of two products of generators, used in the presentation of a group.
Synonyms
- connection, link, relationship
- relative
- sense act of relating a story recounting, telling
- correspondence
Derived terms
- close relation
- direct relation
- distant relation
- equivalence relation
- friends and relations
- indirect relation
- inverse relation
- shirttail relation
- relations
- relationship
Related terms
Translations
way in which two things may be associated
mathematics: set of ordered tuples, a Boolean
function of two or more arguments
set of ordered tuples retrievable by a database
member of one's family
act of relating a story
- Finnish: kertomus
Anagrams
French
Etymology
From relatio.Pronunciation
Noun
fr-noun fSwedish
Pronunciation
Noun
relation- relation; how two things may be associated
- In the context of "math|lang=sv": relation; set of ordered tuples
- In the context of "computing|lang=sv": relation; retrievable by a database
See also
Extensive Definition
Relation may refer to:
- Relation, a person to whom one is related, i.e. a family member (see also Kinship)
- Relation (mathematics), a generalization of arithmetic relations, such as "=" and "<", that occur in statements, such as "5 < 6" and "2 + 2 = 4". See also binary relation, triadic relation, relational algebra, theory of relations.
- In the relational model of databases, a set of tuples (also called rows), otherwise known as a table.
- Relation, in logic and philosophy, a property or predicate ranging over more than one argument. See also Logic of relatives, Relation of ideas, Relational theory, Relational philosophy.
relation in Czech: Relace
relation in German: Relation
(Begriffsklärung)
relation in Spanish: Relación
relation in French: Relation
relation in Ido: Relato
relation in Italian: Relazione
relation in Dutch: Verhouding
relation in Japanese: 関係
relation in Russian: Отношение
relation in Simple English: Relation
relation in Vietnamese: Quan hệ
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
about,
absorption, affective
meaning, affiliation, agnation, allegory, alliance, analogy, ancestry, anent, apropos, association, associations, balancing, bearing, blood, blood relationship, blood
relative, brotherhood, brothership, capacity, carnal knowledge,
character, cognation, coitus, coloring, common ancestry,
common descent, comparative anatomy, comparative degree,
comparative grammar, comparative judgment, comparative linguistics,
comparative literature, comparative method, compare, comparing, comparison, concerning, condition, confrontation, confrontment, connection, connotation, consanguinity, consequence, contrast, contrastiveness,
correlation,
correspondence,
cousinhood, cousinship, criminal
conversation, dealings,
delineation,
denotation, description, distinction, distinctiveness,
doings, drift, effect, embarrassment, enation, engagement, enmeshment, entanglement, essence, extension, fatherhood, filiation, force, fraternity, gist, grammatical meaning, idea, impact, implication, import, in relation to, inclusion, intension, interconnection,
intercourse,
interdependence,
involution, involvement, kin, kindred, kinship, kinsman, kinswoman, lexical meaning,
liaison, likening, link, links, literal meaning, matching, maternity, matrilineage, matriliny, matrisib, matrocliny, meaning, metaphor, motherhood, narration, narrative, opposing, opposition, overtone, parallelism, part, paternity, patrilineage, patriliny, patrisib, patrocliny, pertaining to,
pertinence, pith, point, portrayal, position, practical
consequence, propinquity, proportion, purport, quality, range of meaning,
re, real meaning, recapitulation, recital, recitation, recountal, recounting, reference, referent, referring to,
regarding, rehearsal, relations, relationship, relative, relevance, report, respecting, retelling, review, role, scope, semantic cluster, semantic
field, sense, sex, sexual intercourse, sibship, significance, signification, significatum, signifie, simile, similitude, sisterhood, sistership, span of meaning,
spirit, status, story, structural meaning,
substance, sum, sum and substance, symbolic
meaning, tale-telling, telling, tenor, tie, tie-in, ties of blood, totality
of associations, transferred meaning, trope of comparison, truck, unadorned meaning, undertone, value, weighing, with regard to, with
respect to, yarn spinning