Relation

Quick meaning: Relation is a noun meaning The manner in which two things may be associated.

Meaning

The manner in which two things may be associated.

More Meanings

1. A member of one's extended family; a relative.
2. The act of relating a story.
3. (mathematics, set theory) A set of ordered tuples.
4. (databases) A set of tuples, implemented as a table in a relational database.
5. (mathematics) A statement of equality of two products of generators, used in the presentation of a group.
6. (category theory) A subobject of a product of objects.
7. (chiefly in the plural) A relationship; the manner in which and tone with which people or states, etc. interact.

Example Sentences

the foreign relations of the United States

The relation between diet and health is complex.

Your relation of the events is different from mine.

Yes, he's a relation of mine, but only a distant one.

Word Forms

• relations

Synonyms for relation

Depending on context, synonyms include connection, link, relationship, recounting, tell, correspondence.

Antonyms for relation

Common opposites include irrelation.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include congress, relative, recounting, telling, copulation, intercourse.

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