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The manner in which two things may be associated.countableuncountable
- The relation between diet and health is complex.
- There's no linear relation between mortality and size.
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A member of one's extended family; a relative.countableuncountable
- Yes, he's a relation of mine, but only a distant one.
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A relationship; the manner in which and tone with which people or states, etc. interact.countablein-pluraluncountable
- the foreign relations of the United States
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The act of relating a story.countableuncountable
- Your relation of the events is different from mine.
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A set of ordered tuples.countableuncountable
- […]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
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A set of ordered tuples.; A set of ordered pairs; a binary relation.countableuncountable
- Equality is a symmetric relation, while divisibility is not.
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A set of tuples, implemented as a table in a relational database.countableuncountable
- This relation uses the customer's social security number as a key.
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A statement of equality of two products of generators, used in the presentation of a group.countableuncountable
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A subobject of a product of objects.countableuncountable
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The act of intercourse.countablein-pluraloften
- have relations with
- have sexual relations with
syn. member of one's family · association · bearing · concern · pertinence · reference · relation · relevance · correspondence
ant. irrelation