relation

About 68.41 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The manner in which two things may be associated.

   The relation between diet and health is complex.

2. noun A member of one's extended family; a relative.

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

3. noun A relationship; the manner in which and tone with which people or states, etc. interact.

   the foreign relations of the United States

4. noun The act of relating a story.

   Your relation of the events is different from mine.

5. noun A set of ordered tuples. A set of ordered pairs; a binary relation.

   Equality is a symmetric relation, while divisibility is not.

6. noun A set of ordered pairs; a binary relation.

   Equality is a symmetric relation, while divisibility is not.

7. noun A set of tuples, implemented as a table in a relational database.

   This relation uses the customer's social security number as a key.

8. noun A statement of equality of two products of generators, used in the presentation of a group.

Similar words

congress relative recounting telling sexual relation sex act copulation intercourse carnal knowledge sexual congress

Often followed by

to of between with is in which and that

Word family

relations