relation

[ri-ley-shuh n] /rɪˈleɪ ʃən/
noun
1.
an existing connection; a significant association between or among things:
the relation between cause and effect.
2.
relations.
  1. the various connections between peoples, countries, etc.:
    foreign relations.
  2. the various connections in which persons are brought together:
    business and social relations.
  3. sexual intercourse.
3.
the mode or kind of connection between one person and another, between an individual and God, etc.
4.
connection between persons by blood or marriage.
5.
a person who is related by blood or marriage; relative:
his wife's relations.
6.
the act of relating, narrating, or telling; narration.
7.
Law. a principle whereby effect is given to an act done at one time as if it had been done at a previous time.
8.
Mathematics.
  1. a property that associates two quantities in a definite order, as equality or inequality.
  2. a single- or multiple-valued function.
Idioms
9.
in / with relation to, with reference to; concerning:
It's best to plan with relation to anticipated changes in one's earnings.
Origin
1350-1400; Middle English relacion < Latin relātiōn- (stem of relātiō). See relate, -ion
Related forms
relationless, adjective
nonrelation, noun
prerelation, noun
subrelation, noun
Synonyms
1. relationship; tie, link. 2a, b. association. 4. relationship, kinship. 6. recitation, recital, description.
Antonyms
1. independence.
Examples from the web for relation
  • Writer tells about his kind stepmother and her family, who treated him as a genuine relation.
  • Similar questions, however, seldom come up in relation to people.
  • Charges may have little relation to costs and often lean to one side of the market.
  • Simply imposing a deadline-whether it was two or eight months away-reversed the mind's relation between work and time.
  • It was all theoretical, with rarely any relation to the tangible world around me.
  • If real interest rates are permanently lower, this could justify higher prices in relation to incomes.
  • Gravity among planets plays a key role in how they align themselves in relation to their star.
  • To begin with, at many colleges, it really doesn't pay that well in relation to the hours it requires.
  • Knowing how your home is positioned in relation to daily sunlight and wind flow will help you to use nature to your own benefit.
  • Scientists have long been interested in the relation between a nose's form and its function.
British Dictionary definitions for relation

relation

/rɪˈleɪʃən/
noun
1.
the state or condition of being related or the manner in which things are related
2.
connection by blood or marriage; kinship
3.
a person who is connected by blood or marriage; relative; kinsman
4.
reference or regard (esp in the phrase in or with relation to)
5.
the position, association, connection, or status of one person or thing with regard to another or others
6.
the act of relating or narrating
7.
an account or narrative
8.
(law) the principle by which an act done at one time is regarded in law as having been done antecedently
9.
(law) the statement of grounds of complaint made by a relator
10.
(logic, maths)
  1. an association between ordered pairs of objects, numbers, etc, such as … is greater than …
  2. the set of ordered pairs whose members have such an association
11.
(philosophy)
  1. internal relation, a relation that necessarily holds between its relata, as 4 is greater than 2
  2. external relation, a relation that does not so hold
See also relations
Word Origin
C14: from Latin relātiō a narration, a relation (between philosophical concepts)
Word Origin and History for relation
n.

late 14c., "connection, correspondence;" also "act of telling," from Anglo-French relacioun, Old French relacion "report, connection" (14c.), from Latin relationem (nominative relatio) "a bringing back, restoring; a report, proposition," from relatus (see relate). Meaning "person related by blood or marriage" first attested c.1500. Stand-alone phrase no relation "not in the same family" is attested by 1930.

relation in Medicine

relation re·la·tion (rĭ-lā'shən)
n.

  1. A logical or natural association between two or more things; relevance of one to another; connection.

  2. The connection of people by blood or marriage; kinship.

  3. A person connected to another by blood or marriage; a relative.

  4. The positional relationship of the teeth or other structures in the mouth.

relation in Technology


1. A subset of the product of two sets, R : A x B. If (a, b) is an element of R then we write a R b, meaning a is related to b by R. A relation may be: reflexive (a R a), symmetric (a R b => b R a), transitive (a R b & b R c => a R c), antisymmetric (a R b & b R a => a = b) or total (a R b or b R a).
See equivalence relation, partial ordering, pre-order, total ordering.
2. A table in a relational database.
(1995-02-28)

Idioms and Phrases with relation

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