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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Relation \Re*la"tion\ (r?-l?"sh?n), n. [F. relation, L. relatio. See {Relate}.] 1. The act of relating or telling; also that which is related; recital; account; narration; narrative; as the relation of historical events. ??????oet's relation doth well figure them --Bacon. 2. The state of being related or of referring; what is apprehended as appertaining to a being or quality, by considering it in its bearing upon something else; relative quality or condition; the being such and such with regard or respect to some other thing connection; as the relation of experience to knowledge; the relation of master to servant. Any sort of connection which is perceived or imagined between two or more things or any comparison which is made by the mind, is a relation. --I. Taylor. 3. Reference; respect; regard. I have been importuned to make some observations on this art in relation to its agreement with poetry. --Dryden. 4. Connection by consanguinity or affinity; kinship; relationship; as the relation of parents and children. Relations dear, and all the charities Of father, son, and brother, first were known --Milton. 5. A person connected by cosanguinity or affinity; a relative; a kinsman or kinswoman. For me . . . my relation does not care a rush. --Ld. Lytton. 6. (Law) a The carrying back and giving effect or operation to an act or proceeding frrom some previous date or time, by a sort of fiction, as if it had happened or begun at that time. In such case the act is said to take effect by relation. b The act of a relator at whose instance a suit is begun. --Wharton. Burrill Syn: Recital; rehearsal; narration; account; narrative; tale; detail; description; kindred; kinship; consanguinity; affinity; kinsman; kinswoman. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: relation n 1: an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together 2: the act of sexual procreation between a man and a woman; the man's penis is inserted into the woman's vagina and excited until orgasm and ejaculation occur [syn: {sexual intercourse}, {intercourse}, {sex act}, {copulation}, {coitus}, {coition}, {sexual congress}, {congress}, {sexual relation}, {carnal knowledge}] 3: a person related by blood or marriage; "police are searching for relatives of the deceased"; "he has distant relations back in New Jersey" [syn: {relative}] 4: an act of narration; "he was the hero according to his own relation"; "his endless recounting of the incident eventually became unbearable" [syn: {telling}, {recounting}] 5: (usually plural) mutual dealings or connections among persons or groups: "international relations" From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: relation 1.A subset of the {product} of two sets, R : A x B. If (a, b) is an element of R then we write a R b, meaning a is related to b by R. A relation may be: {reflexive} (a R a), {symmetric} (a R b => b R a), {transitive} (a R b & b R c => a R c), {antisymmetric} (a R b & b R a => a = b) or {total} (a R b or b R a). See {equivalence relation}, {partial ordering}, {pre-order}, {total ordering}. 2. A {table} in a {relational database}. (1995-02-28)
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