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relation

[ri-ley-shuhn]

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noun

an existing connection; a significant association between or among things: the relation between cause and effect.

relations,

the various connections between peoples, countries, etc.: foreign relations.

the various connections in which persons are brought together: business and social relations.

sexual intercourse.

the mode or kind of connection between one person and another, between an individual and God, etc.

connection between persons by blood or marriage.

a person who is related by blood or marriage; relative: his wife's relations.

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the act of relating, narrating, or telling; narration.

Law. a principle whereby effect is given to an act done at one time as if it had been done at a previous time.

Mathematics.

a property that associates two quantities in a definite order, as equality or inequality.

a single- or multiple-valued function.

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Idiom

in/with relation to, with reference to; concerning: It's best to plan with relation to anticipated changes in one's earnings.

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special point used to construct and define a conic section

family of curves including circles, ellipses, parabolas, and hyperbolas

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Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English relacion < Latin relātiōn- (stem of relātiō). See relate, -ion

Related forms

re·la·tion·less, adjective

non·re·la·tion, noun

pre·re·la·tion, noun

sub·re·la·tion, noun

Synonyms
1. relationship; tie, link. 2a, b. association. 4. relationship, kinship. 6. recitation, recital, description.

Antonyms
1. independence.

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Example Sentences

As so many conflicting reports have been made in relation to.

Similar questions, however, seldom come up in relation to people.

Charges may have little relation to costs and often lean to one side of the market.

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As so many conflicting reports have been made in relation to.

Similar questions, however, seldom come up in relation to people.

Charges may have little relation to costs and often lean to one side of the market.

Their craniums are characterized by long and narrow vaults, with faces short and low in relation to the neurocranium.

Simply imposing a deadline-whether it was two or eight months away-reversed the mind's relation between work and time.

It was all theoretical, with rarely any relation to the tangible world around me.

Desite the name, they bear no relation to the weeds that pop up in your lawn--other than a similarity in leaf shape.

Grid views, from above and to the side, show where a particular pitch traveled in relation to the strike zone.

The snowfall bore about the same relation to a blizzard as a gentle breeze does to a gale.

Salaries are not that great to begin with in relation to other kinds of employment.

If real interest rates are permanently lower, this could justify higher prices in relation to incomes.

Gravity among planets plays a key role in how they align themselves in relation to their star.

It is an awesome show--and one that reminds all of us of the powers of nature and our own insignificance in relation to them.

Exactly where the dinosaur fits in relation to sauropodomorphs is difficult to ascertain, however.

In addition to the obvious new iPhone, we're predicting something big happening with relation to streaming video.

The young man's thoughts of business or of an office are not so much in relation to his ability to perform it as to get into it.

To begin with, at many colleges, it really doesn't pay that well in relation to the hours it requires.

He says that executive compensation has little relation to executive performance: inspired managers do it for love.

Knowing how your home is positioned in relation to daily sunlight and wind flow will help you to use nature to your own benefit.

Scientists have long been interested in the relation between a nose's form and its function.

Everyone was linked together through a family tree or church famiy relation.

Due to the position of the camera in relation to their helmets, the photographers were not able to see through the viewfinder.

Academic and intellectual pursuits thus had a curiously distant relation to college life".

The relation between the two prices became the free-market exchange rate.

But there were also some along parallel fault lines-activity that seemed to have no relation to the stretching.

Fedorka emphasizes, however, that the relation between immunity and reproductive success is.

Nations do not now stand in the same relation to each other that they did ages ago.

Their extreme, almost theatrical caution in relation to cash was familiar to me.

But that knowledge probably has little or no relation to your firstand second-year chemistry courses.

My point is that technological evolution must also be viable in relation to the evolution of the market.

Zoom in on the map to see where all of this infrastructure is located in relation to coastal wetlands.

The relation holds true for rich countries and poor, as seen above in each rising line.

Both of these involve moving the lens in relation to the film plane.

Let them develop tools in relation to problem solving by letting them try their own solutions.

No wonder cricket is the poor relation of team sports.

In relation to the body, taboos show us not the body's physical or biological boundaries, but its cultural boundaries.

And novel and new are two things scarce as hens teeth in relation to desalination technologies.

The second reference to drugs is in relation to the schools history of drug problems.

The differential tuition rates increasingly bear no relation to costs of instruction.

Too many countries are seized by ambitions that bear no relation to their particular comparative advantages.

Population density describes the number of individuals occupying an area in relation to the size of the area they occupy.

Toxicologists usually determine the relation between exposure to contaminants and health risks by conducting animal experiments.

The trademark covers usage of the phrase in relation to retail store services featuring computer software and services.

Merely wandering around with every paper or talk having little relation to the previous ones tends to be frowned upon.

Alberti's purpose in writing it remains unclear, as does its relation to the painting of the time.

To know where places are in relation to one another, people use a system for telling direction.

These studies have been performed and no relation has arisen.

British police also arrested five men in relation to the attacks.

Now, this vignette may on the surface not seem to be about work or my relation to it, but it is.

Tax levels would be adjusted in relation to consumption and the consequent achievement of carbon targets.

We are left wondering about the relation between the mental and the physical, between brain science and modern psychology.

There will be two boxes, one inside the other, to allow the lens to be moved in relation to the scanner bed.

They're basically arbitrary numbers with no relation to the textual content.

Initial interest payments may seem low in relation to income, but because inflation is also low it.

The relation of a string to an atom is the same as that of a human to the entire visible universe.

But the relation of your country of origin to the research is pretty obvious, and needs only a brief mention.

And although its total exports have continued growing, they remain tiny in relation to its debt.

As it is pointed out by the article, it is seen to have a relation to the western culture.

Remarkably, back and forths of that nature did not damage but enriched our relation.

Or perhaps what really matters is how the poor are doing in absolute terms rather than in relation to the wealthy.

So far none has been able to make a clear comparison and describe the relation between the size of a brain and its intelligence.

It's common on campuses where the mascot has some relation to an animal.

These need to be understood in relation to the proper goal of the firm.

Most people and even scientists operate under the premise that genetic similarities imply a common relation or ancestor.

Steevo up there or down there where ever the heck he is in relation to my post, had some great tips.

Callender lucidly writes that as money is one way to describe the relation between disparate objects, so is time.

It is a strategy that helps to illuminate the relation between energy supplies and the needs of the environment and society.

The unclear point is the relation between face evaluation and sociality.

Any of these groups that begins to adopt a culture of existential guilt will inevitably wane in relation to other groups.

Soon you devolped by no relation to any bodyYou make your choices and move with the possible energy.

Farmers adjust what they plant and when they plant in relation to weather changes.

Full gravity involves full mobility in relation to, and in conjunction with, distance in/of space.

The relation between the sun and earth determines day length, not our clocks.

Zak posits a relation between oxytocin, trust and economic well-being.

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World English Dictionary

relation (rɪˈleɪʃən)

—n
1.	the state or condition of being related or the manner in which things are related
2.	connection by blood or marriage; kinship
3.	a person who is connected by blood or marriage; relative; kinsman
4.	reference or regard (esp in the phrase inorwith relation to)
5.	the position, association, connection, or status of one person or thing with regard to another or others
6.	the act of relating or narrating
7.	an account or narrative
8.	law the principle by which an act done at one time is regarded in law as having been done antecedently
9.	law the statement of grounds of complaint made by a relator
10.	logic, maths
	a. an association between ordered pairs of objects, numbers, etc, such as … is greater than …
	b. the set of ordered pairs whose members have such an association
11.	philosophy
	a. internal relation a relation that necessarily holds between its relata, as 4 is greater than 2
	b. external relation a relation that does not so hold

[C14: from Latin relātiō a narration, a relation (between philosophical concepts)]

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Etymonline

Word Origin & History

relation

late 14c., from Anglo-Fr. relacioun, O.Fr. relacion (14c.), from L. relationem (nom. relatio) "a bringing back, restoring," from relatus (see relate). Meaning "person related by blood or marriage" first attested c.1500. Stand-alone phrase no relation "not in the same family" is attested by 1930.

American Heritage

Medical Dictionary

relation re·la·tion (rĭ-lā'shən)
n.

A logical or natural association between two or more things; relevance of one to another; connection.
The connection of people by blood or marriage; kinship.
A person connected to another by blood or marriage; a relative.
The positional relationship of the teeth or other structures in the mouth.

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Computing Dictionary

relation definition

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)

American Heritage

Idioms & Phrases

relation

see poor relation; relative (in relation) to.

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