Meaning of relation | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The manner in which two things may be associated.
   countable, uncountable
2. A member of one's extended family; a relative.
   countable, uncountable
3. In reference to; in connection with: This letter from the bank is in relation to your mortgage.
4. A relationship; the manner in which and tone with which people or states, etc. interact.
   countable, in-plural, uncountable
5. in or with relation to, with reference to; concerning.
6. The act of relating a story.
   countable, uncountable
7. a member of one's family; a relation. All his relatives attended the funeral. familielede أحد الأقْرِباء، أحد أفراد العائِلَه роднина parente příbuzný, -á der/die Verwandte pårørende συγγενήςpariente sugulane خویشاوند؛ قوم و خوییش sukulainen parent, parente קָרוֹב מִשפָּחָה रिश्तेदार rođak rokon keluarga skyldmenni parente 親類 친척 giminė radinieks saudara familielidslektningkrewny خپلوى، خيښى parente rudă родственник príbuzný, -á sorodnik rođaci släkting เครือญาติ akraba 親戚 родич, родичка رشتے ...
8. A set of ordered tuples.
   countable, uncountable
9. when compared to someone or something else. He seems relatively happy now; This is a fairly unimportant problem, relatively speaking. relatief بالمُقارَنَه، نِسْبِيّا сравнително relativamente poměrně verhältnismäßig relativt σχετικάrelativamente suhteliselt نسبتا suhteellisen relativementיחסית तुलनात्मक रूप से relativno, razmjerno viszonylag, aránylag secara relatif tiltölulega relativamente 比較的に …와 비교하여 daugmaž, palyginti relatīvi; salīdzinoši secara perbandingannya betrekkelijkforholdsvis,...
10. A set of ordered pairs; a binary relation.
    countable, uncountable
11. relación; comparación.
12. A set of tuples, implemented as a table in a relational database.
    countable, uncountable
13. A logical or natural association between two or more things; relevance of one to another; connection: the relation between smoking and heart disease.
14. A statement of equality of two products of generators, used in the presentation of a group.
    countable, uncountable
15. The connection of people by blood or marriage; kinship.
16. A subobject of a product of objects.
    countable, uncountable
17. A person connected to another by blood or marriage; a relative.
18. The act of intercourse.
    countable, in-plural, often, uncountable
19. The way in which one person or thing is connected with another: the relation of parent to child.
20. relationsa. The mutual dealings or connections of persons, groups, or nations in social, business, or diplomatic matters: international relations.

Equivalents

Examples

“The relation between diet and health is complex.”

“Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.”

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

“the foreign relations of the United States”

“Your relation of the events is different from mine.”

“I shall you make relacyon By way of apostrofacyon […] How I, Skelton laureat, Devysed and also wrate Uppon a lewde curate, […]”

“1669, Letter from Dr. Merrett to Thomas Browne, in Simon Wilkin (ed.), Sir Thomas Browne’s Works including his Life and Correspondence, London: William Pickering, 1836, Volume I, p. 443, Many of the lupus piscis I have seen, and have bin informed by the king’s fishmonger they are taken on our coast, but was not satisfied for some reasons of his relation soe as to enter it into my Pinax […]”

“1691, Arthur Gorges (translator), The Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon (1609), London, Preface, […] seeing they are diversly related by Writers that lived near about one and the self-same time, we may easily perceive that they were common things, derived from precedent Memorials; and that they became various, by reason of the divers Ornaments bestowed on them by particular Relations […]”

“Jones […] was easily prevailed on to satisfy Mr Dowling's curiosity, by relating the history of his birth and education, which he did, like Othello. […] Mr Dowling was indeed very greatly affected with this relation; for he had not divested himself of humanity by being an attorney.”

“[…]Signs are, first of all, physical things: for example, chalk marks on a blackboard, pencil or ink marks on paper, sound waves produced in a human throat. According to Reichenbach, "What makes them signs is the intermediary position they occupy between an object and a sign user, i.e., a person." For a sign to be a sign, or to function as such, it is necessary that the person take account of the object it designates. Thus, anything in nature may or may not be a sign, depending on a person's attitude toward it. A physical thing is a sign when it appears as a substitute for, or representation of, the object for which it stands with respect to the sign user. The three-place relation between sign, object, and sign user is called the sign relation or relation of denotation.”

“Equality is a symmetric relation, while divisibility is not.”

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

“have relations with”

“have sexual relations with”

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