relation

/ษนษชหˆleษชสƒษ™n/

IPA: /R IY0 L EY1 SH AH0 N/

noun
  1. 1

    The manner in which two things may be associated.

    โ€œThe relation between diet and health is complex.โ€

  2. 2

    A member of one's family.

    โ€œYes, he's a relation of mine, but only a distant one.โ€

  3. 3

    The act of relating a story.

    โ€œYour relation of the events is different from mine.โ€

  4. 4

    A set of ordered tuples.

  5. 5

    Specifically, a set of ordered pairs.

    โ€œEquality is a symmetric relation, while divisibility is not.โ€

  6. 6

    A set of ordered tuples retrievable by a relational database; a table.

    โ€œThis relation uses the customer's social security number as a key.โ€

  7. 7

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

  8. 8

    A subobject of a product of objects.

  9. 9

    (usually collocated: sexual relation) The act of intercourse.

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/relation