relation

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English

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.

Pronunciation

• enPR: rĭ-lā'shən, IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈleɪʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

relation (countable and uncountable, plural relations)

1. The manner in which two things may be associated.
2. A member of one's extended family; a relative.

3. (chiefly in the plural) A relationship; the manner in which and tone with which people or states, etc. interact.

4. The act of relating a story.
   • 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,^[1]

     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,^[2]

     […] 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 […]
5. (set theory) A set of ordered tuples.
6. (set theory) Specifically, a set of ordered pairs; a binary relation.

7. (databases) A set of ordered tuples retrievable by a relational database; a table.

8. (mathematics) A statement of equality of two products of generators, used in the presentation of a group.
9. (category theory) A subobject of a product of objects.
11. (often collocated: sexual relation, often in the plural) The act of intercourse.

Synonyms

• (way in which two things may be associated): connection, link, relationship
• (member of one's family): relative
• (act of relating a story): recounting, telling
• (mathematics: set of ordered tuples): correspondence
• See also Thesaurus:relative

Hyponyms

• (set theory): function

Derived terms

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Translations

Anagrams

• Oriental, Tirolean, oriental, taileron, tenorial

Danish

Noun

relation

1. relation
2. relationship

Declension

Further reading

• “relation” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French relacion, from Latin relātiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.la.sjɔ̃/

Noun

relation f (plural relations)

1. relation
2. relationship

   Synonym: rapport

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

• “relation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• enrôlait, oriental

Swedish

Etymology

From Latin relātiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rɛlaˈɧuːn/

Noun

relation c

1. relation; how two things may be associated
2. (mathematics) relation; set of ordered tuples
3. (computing) relation; retrievable by a database

Declension

See also

• samband

Anagrams

• laotiern