English Explanatory Dictionary

relation

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The manner in which two things may be associated.
  2. A member of one's extended family; a relative.
  3. A relationship; the manner in which and tone with which people or states, etc. interact.
  4. The act of relating a story.
  5. A set of ordered tuples.
  6. A set of ordered pairs; a binary relation.
  7. A set of tuples, implemented as a table in a relational database.
  8. A statement of equality of two products of generators, used in the presentation of a group.
  9. A subobject of a product of objects.
  10. The act of intercourse.

Pronunciation

/ɹɪˈleɪʃ(ə)n/ en-us-relation.ogg /ɹəˈlæ̝ɪʃ(ə)n/

Word forms

relation relations

Etymology

From Middle English relacion, relacioun, from Anglo-Norman relacioun and Old French relacion (whence French relation), from Latin relātiō, noun of process form from perfect passive participle relātus (“related”), from verb referō (“to refer, to relate”), from prefix re- (“again”) + ferō (“to bear, to carry”). By surface analysis, relate + -ion. Doublet of relazione.

Synonyms

member of one's family association bearing concern pertinence reference relation relevance correspondence connection link relationship recounting tell

Antonyms

irrelation

Related words

correlation relate relational relative relator

Derived words

corelation disrelation grandrelation interrelation irrelation metarelation misrelation nonrelation relational relationism relationist relationless relationlike relationscape relationship steprelation unrelation adult relations binary relation blood relation Clausius-Clapeyron relation co-relation direct relation elbow relation equivalence relation false relation finitary relation grammatical relation guest relation officer indirect relation industrial relations in relation to international relations inverse relation labor relations logical relation no relation partial ordering relation Plücker relation poor relation public relations race relations recurrence relation relation of production semantic relation sexual relation sexual relations shirttail relation spatial relation thematic relation total ordering relation

Translations

Chinese Mandarin: 關係 /关系 Czech: relace Dutch: relatie Finnish: relaatio French: relation German: Relation Hindi: संबंध Hungarian: reláció Italian: relazione Japanese: 関係 Korean: 관계 Iranian Persian: رابِطِه Polish: relacja Portuguese: relação Romanian: legătură Slovene: relacija Spanish: relación Swedish: relation Tajik: робита
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