Relation

Noun

 * 1) The manner in which two things may be associated.
 * The relation between diet and health is complex.
 * 1) A member of one's family.
 * Yes, he's a relation of mine, but a only distant one.
 * 1) The act of relating a story.
 * Your relation of the events is different from mine.
 * 1)  A set of ordered tuples.
 * 2)  Specifically, a set of ordered pairs.
 * Equality is a symmetric relation, while divisibility is not.
 * 1)  A set of ordered tuples retrievable by a relational database; a table.
 * This relation uses the customer's social security number as a key.
 * 1)  A statement of equality of two products of generators, used in the presentation of a group.

Synonyms

 * connection, link, relationship
 * relative
 * recounting, telling
 * correspondence
 * See also Thesaurus:relative

Derived terms

 * close relation
 * direct relation
 * distant relation
 * equivalence relation
 * friends and relations


 * indirect relation
 * inverse relation
 * shirttail relation
 * relations
 * relationship

Related terms

 * relate
 * relative
 * relator

Thesaurus
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

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-: + ferre:

Translations

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 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Malayalam: ബന്ധം (bandham)


 * Norwegian: relasjon
 * Romanian: relaţie, legătură
 * Russian:, ,
 * Slovene: odnos, relacija
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Telugu: సంబంధము (sambandhamu)


 * Chinese: 关系
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
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 * German:
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 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Persian:
 * Romanian: legătură
 * Slovene: relacija
 * Spanish:
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 * Finnish:
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 * Armenian:
 * Czech:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: parent
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: parente


 * Norwegian: slektning
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovene:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: బంధువు
 * Volapük: röletan,  hiröletan,  jiröletan


 * Finnish:
 * Romanian: relatare, povestire, narare


 * Russian:, , ,


 * : rilato

Anagrams

 * oriental, Oriental
 * tenorial

Noun

 * 1) relation
 * 2) relationship

Etymology
From relatio.

Anagrams

 * enrôlait
 * oriental

Noun

 * 1)  relation

Noun

 * 1) relation; how two things may be associated
 * 2)  relation; set of ordered tuples
 * 3)  relation; retrievable by a database