Relation (IPA: /ɹiˈɫeɪʃən/)
| Relation (n.) |
The act of relating or telling; also, that which is related; recital; account; narration; narrative; as, the relation of historical events. |
| Relation (n.) |
The state of being related or of referring; what is apprehended as appertaining to a being or quality, by considering it in its bearing upon something else; relative quality or condition; the being such and such with regard or respect to some other thing; connection; as, the relation of experience to knowledge; the relation of master to servant. |
| Relation (n.) |
Reference; respect; regard. |
| Relation (n.) |
Connection by consanguinity or affinity; kinship; relationship; as, the relation of parents and children. |
| Relation (n.) |
A person connected by cosanguinity or affinity; a relative; a kinsman or kinswoman. |
| Relation (n.) |
The carrying back, and giving effect or operation to, an act or proceeding frrom some previous date or time, by a sort of fiction, as if it had happened or begun at that time. In such case the act is said to take effect by relation. |
| Relation (n.) |
The act of a relator at whose instance a suit is begun. |
| Relation |
Property that assigns truth values to k-tuples of individuals |
| Relation |
Concept in relational database theory |
| Relation |
General relation between different objects or individuals |
| Relation |
Concept in a metadata schema |
| Relation |
Album by Globe |
| Relation Synonyms |
Relation Back |
| Relation Synonyms |
Relative |
| Relation Synonyms |
Copulation, Congress, Carnal Knowledg, Sexual Congress, Intercourse, Sex Act, Sexual Relation, Coitus, Coition, Sexual Intercourse |
| Relation Synonyms |
Recounting, Telling |
| Relation (Last Name / Surname) |
Relation is the #113,155 most common last name / surname from the 2010 United States Census. The census reported that 155 people had that surname. |
| Spanish Translation |
Relation in Spanish is Relación |
| Tagalog Translation |
Relation in Tagalog is Kaugnayan |
| Example Sentence (Quote) " chapter 2, The Relation of Mathematics to Physics ," p. 58; video" - Richard Feynman |
| Example Sentence (Quote) " Expressions used in particular cases are to be understood with relation to the subject-matter then before the Court." - Judicial interpretation |
| Example Sentence (Quote) " Genetic determinism... On its interpretation depends the entire relation between biology and the social sciences." - E. O. Wilson |
| Example Sentence (Quote) "It is not a country-to-country relation between the two sides of the Strait." - Wu Po-hsiung |
| Example Sentence (Quote) " Language always preserves a play or figure/ground relation between experience, and perception and its replay in expression." - Marshall McLuhan |
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