relation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rĭ-lā'shən
ipa: /ɹɪˈleɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: 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 (“I refer, I relate”), from prefix re- (“again”) + ferō (“I bear, I carry”). By surface analysis, relate + -ion. Doublet of relazione.
Senses: examples: text: The relation between diet and health is complex.
text: 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.
ref: 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter II, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: The manner in which two things may be associated.
examples: text: Yes, he's a relation of mine, but only a distant one.
glosses: A member of one's extended family; a relative.
examples: text: the foreign relations of the United States
glosses: A relationship; the manner in which and tone with which people or states, etc. interact.
examples: text: Your relation of the events is different from mine.
text: I shall you make relacyon
By way of apostrofacyon […]
How I, Skelton laureat,
Devysed and also wrate
Uppon a lewde curate, […]
ref: c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 62, lines 29–30, 33–35:
text: 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 […]
text: 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 […]
text: 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.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones:
glosses: The act of relating a story.
examples: text: […]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.
ref: 1974, Thomas S. Szasz, M.D., chapter 7, in The Myth of Mental Illness, →ISBN, page 107:
topics: mathematics
sciences
set-theory
glosses: A set of ordered tuples.
examples: text: Equality is a symmetric relation, while divisibility is not.
topics: mathematics
sciences
set-theory
glosses: A set of ordered tuples.
A set of ordered pairs; a binary relation.
examples: text: This relation uses the customer's social security number as a key.
topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A set of tuples, implemented as a table in a relational database.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A statement of equality of two products of generators, used in the presentation of a group.
topics: category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A subobject of a product of objects.
examples: text: have relations with
text: have sexual relations with
qualifier: often collocated: sexual relation
glosses: The act of intercourse.
Synonyms: sense: way in which two things may be associated
word: connection
sense: way in which two things may be associated
word: link
sense: way in which two things may be associated
word: relationship
word: member of one's family
sense: act of relating a story
word: recounting
sense: act of relating a story
word: tell
sense: mathematics: set of ordered tuples
word: correspondence
word: association
word: bearing
word: concern
word: pertinence
word: reference
word: relation
word: relevance
Hyponyms: topics: set-theory
mathematics
sciences
word: function
word: consanguinity
word: correlation
Derived terms: sense: single words
word: interrelation
sense: single words
word: misrelation
sense: single words
word: nonrelation
sense: single words
word: relational
sense: single words
word: relationist
sense: single words
word: relationlike
sense: single words
word: relationship
sense: Expressions
word: adult relations
sense: Expressions
word: binary relation
sense: Expressions
word: blood relation
sense: Expressions
word: Clausius-Clapeyron relation
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word: co-relation
sense: Expressions
word: direct relation
sense: Expressions
word: elbow relation
sense: Expressions
word: equivalence relation
sense: Expressions
word: false relation
sense: Expressions
word: finitary relation
sense: Expressions
word: grammatical relation
sense: Expressions
word: guest relation officer
sense: Expressions
word: indirect relation
sense: Expressions
word: industrial relations
sense: Expressions
word: in relation to
sense: Expressions
word: international relations
sense: Expressions
word: inverse relation
sense: Expressions
word: labor relations
sense: Expressions
word: logical relation
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word: no relation
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word: partial ordering relation
sense: Expressions
word: Plücker relation
sense: Expressions
word: poor relation
sense: Expressions
word: public relations
sense: Expressions
word: race relations
sense: Expressions
word: recurrence relation
sense: Expressions
word: relation of production
sense: Expressions
word: semantic relation
sense: Expressions
word: sexual relation
sense: Expressions
word: sexual relations
sense: Expressions
word: shirttail relation
sense: Expressions
word: spatial relation
sense: Expressions
word: thematic relation
sense: Expressions
word: total ordering relation
Related terms: correlation
relate
relational
relative
relator