relation

Plural: relations

Noun

• A significant connection or association between two or more things.
• an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together
• 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
• a person related by blood or marriage
  • "he has distant relations back in New Jersey"
• an act of narration
  • "he was the hero according to his own relation"
• (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 amended complaint to the time the initial complaint was filed"
• (usually plural) mutual dealings or connections among persons or groups
  • "international relations"
• The manner in which two things may be associated.
• A member of one's extended family; a relative.
• A relationship; the manner in which and tone with which people or states, etc. interact.
• The act of relating a story.
• A set of ordered tuples.
• A set of ordered tuples.
• A set of ordered pairs; a binary relation.
• A set of tuples, implemented as a table in a relational database.
• A statement of equality of two products of generators, used in the presentation of a group.
• A subobject of a product of objects.
• The act of intercourse.

Examples

• Equality is a symmetric relation, while divisibility is not.
• have relations with
• have sexual relations with
• The clever player saw the RELATION between seemingly random letters and potential bingos.
• the foreign relations of the United States
• The relation between diet and health is complex.
• This relation uses the customer's social security number as a key.
• Yes, he's a relation of mine, but only a distant one.
• Your relation of the events is different from mine.

Synonyms

carnal knowledge, coition, coitus, congress, copulation, intercourse, recounting, relation back, relative, sex act, sexual congress, sexual intercourse, sexual relation, telling, association, bearing, concern, connection, correspondence, link, member of one's family, pertinence, reference, relation, relationship, relevance, tell

Antonyms

irrelation

Related Words

correlation, relate, relational, relative, relator