relation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: category-theory
computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
set-theory
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.
Inflected forms:
form: relations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The manner in which two things may be associated.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
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.
gloss: A member of one's extended family; a relative.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Yes, he's a relation of mine, but only a distant one.
gloss: A relationship; the manner in which and tone with which people or states, etc. interact.
pos: noun
tags: countable
in-plural
uncountable
examples: the foreign relations of the United States
gloss: The act of relating a story.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: A set of ordered tuples.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […]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.
gloss: A set of ordered tuples.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Equality is a symmetric relation, while divisibility is not.
gloss: A set of tuples, implemented as a table in a relational database.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: This relation uses the customer's social security number as a key.
gloss: A statement of equality of two products of generators, used in the presentation of a group.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A subobject of a product of objects.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of intercourse.
pos: noun
tags: countable
in-plural
often
uncountable
examples: have relations with
have sexual relations with
Synonyms: member of one's family
association
bearing
concern
pertinence
reference
relation
relevance
correspondence
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
Translations:
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 關係 /关系
roman: guānxi
lang: Czech
word: relace
lang: Dutch
word: relatie
lang: Finnish
word: relaatio
lang: French
word: relation
lang: German
word: Relation
lang: Hindi
word: संबंध
roman: sambandh
lang: Hungarian
word: reláció
lang: Italian
word: relazione
lang: Japanese
word: 関係
roman: kankei
lang: Korean
word: 관계
roman: gwan'gye
lang: Iranian Persian
word: رابِطِه
roman: râbete
lang: Polish
word: relacja
lang: Portuguese
word: relação
lang: Romanian
word: legătură
lang: Slovene
word: relacija
lang: Spanish
word: relación
lang: Swedish
word: relation
lang: Tajik
word: робита
roman: robita
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 關係 /关系
roman: guānxi
lang: Finnish
word: relaatio
lang: German
word: Relation
lang: Japanese
word: 関係
roman: kankei
lang: Polish
word: relacja
lang: Swedish
word: relation